It’s like triggers for a bunch of howler monkeys. Eventually the monkeys see it and then do it.
Okay. But whatever else, as much as I didn’t care for Seinfeld… that was funny. It’s not so much as that I laugh with such people, in real life… obviously they exist. I have met them, seen things like this, just not put so humorously. It’s that I am laughing at them.
And Jerry Seinfeld is right – today’s audience would be too politically correct to find that funny and they would call it racist.
Whatever – it is still funny!
The Seinfeld clip is close but still relies on the assumption that racial identity is fixed.
Before that, The Jerk, and before that Blazing Saddles. (One of the hits on YouTube for the trailer for The Jerk required signing in as an adult, by the way.) I didn’t care for BS’s, but it was politically incorrect as all getout.
Brilliant synopsis from a youtube comment:
“As a healthy straight, white male I was cast as the oppressor of everyone, hated by every “minority” because of something someone did to someone like them sometime in the past. Now that I am transexual, transracial, transabled, my every movement and utterance is imbued with the nobility of the aggrieved, and my struggle elicits empathy and celebration.”
Don’t be transnegrophobic!
I love Seinfeld, and continue to watch reruns. Even before Jerry Seinfeld came out against the Stalinist repression of humor that goes on these days, I was thinking about how many episodes and scenarios — some of the funniest and most socially penetrating — would be ruled out now. That’s why humor has devolved into gross-outs or whimsy.
For comedy to work, there has to be some kind of social consensus about what is sane and what isn’t, and that no longer exists. Sanity has been scared out of us.
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It’s like triggers for a bunch of howler monkeys. Eventually the monkeys see it and then do it.
Okay. But whatever else, as much as I didn’t care for Seinfeld… that was funny. It’s not so much as that I laugh with such people, in real life… obviously they exist. I have met them, seen things like this, just not put so humorously. It’s that I am laughing at them.
And Jerry Seinfeld is right – today’s audience would be too politically correct to find that funny and they would call it racist.
Whatever – it is still funny!
The Seinfeld clip is close but still relies on the assumption that racial identity is fixed.
More on point with the “passing” or “transracial” aspect of the Dolezal case is Chappelle’s Show (see especially black white supremacist sketch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u__W0Qa8v0k) and South Park (see especially Season 9 episode 1 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJH5AR0CuRI).
charles,
Depends who says it and how it’s said. See my previous comment.
We can all laugh and consider this Dozeal woman a nut but it only shows how important identity politics is to the Left.
Obama only becomes president when Barry becomes Barack.
“Back to Blood” by Tom Wolfe explains it all.
We can all laugh and consider this Dozeal woman a nut but it only shows how important identity politics is to the Left.
Dozeal would be a nice name for a psychotropic drug.
Obama only becomes president when Barry becomes Barack.
Whoo hoo, well put!
And this, well done!:
Rachel Dolezal Once Told A Student She Did Not Look Hispanic Enough For A Class Activity.
Twilight zone … penumbra …
Of course, before Seinfeld, Chappelle’s Show, and South Park, there was Soul Man:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g4lEkimhYoA
Eric,
Before that, The Jerk, and before that Blazing Saddles. (One of the hits on YouTube for the trailer for The Jerk required signing in as an adult, by the way.) I didn’t care for BS’s, but it was politically incorrect as all getout.
Brilliant synopsis from a youtube comment:
“As a healthy straight, white male I was cast as the oppressor of everyone, hated by every “minority” because of something someone did to someone like them sometime in the past. Now that I am transexual, transracial, transabled, my every movement and utterance is imbued with the nobility of the aggrieved, and my struggle elicits empathy and celebration.”
Don’t be transnegrophobic!
I love Seinfeld, and continue to watch reruns. Even before Jerry Seinfeld came out against the Stalinist repression of humor that goes on these days, I was thinking about how many episodes and scenarios — some of the funniest and most socially penetrating — would be ruled out now. That’s why humor has devolved into gross-outs or whimsy.
For comedy to work, there has to be some kind of social consensus about what is sane and what isn’t, and that no longer exists. Sanity has been scared out of us.
Slaves only need to Obey. They need nothing else.
Slaves only need to Obey.
As they were …
In light of the trans-racial fiasco, I can’t help thinking of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sFY92tbcmU
Fear the black, become the black. Welcome to Slavery 3.0