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Old 10-10-2009, 08:51 AM   #35 (permalink)
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If the humour on that show is generally about wildly, cartoonishly characterising traits of any of their victims then I can't for the life of me see how that can be described as racist.

I just can't.

If, on the other hand, the only groups of people to be subjected to this type of treatment are racial minorities, then yes. This is racist.

Logan, can you tell us all a little more about how that particular show or the people involved generally portray characters? Are these outrageous characterisations pretty much par for the course?

'Adolescent' humour, 'low brow' humour is still humour and it's still allowed. Knob gags, fart gags, shit, piss, fuck, toilet, sweary gags and unsophisticated contrasts, etc are still allowed. They're still funny, they're always going to be popular while we have taboos.

The more certain types wind themselves up about the sensitivities we all, rightly, have to show towards each other depending on race, then both sophisticated and unsophisticated jokes involving race will be a sordid reaction to it. (With the best will in the world, Australians in general aren't stereotyped with an excess of sophistication )

If you feel offended by it, then that's exactly the reason it exists.

A lot of people who appreciate 'high' culture really do tend towards the opinion that no other elements of 'lesser' culture are allowable or appreciable, with anything they find in the least objectionable in there immediately condemned as 'unacceptable'.

Can I ask you, good people of TFP, is this sketch racist/unacceptable/insensitive?


Just to let you know, this show originally airs on the ultra-pc (at times) and ultra-anti-pc ( at times ) Channel 4 in the UK.
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