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11/13/2020 1:05:58 PM
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You’re making fun of a real world issue that has cost people their lives and torn families apart. That’s -blam!-ing disgusting.
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My wife and I were key organizers of a large anti-racism rally in front of the City Hall of Vancouver, BC in August 2017 and a few other rallies after that. I got to see Soldiers of Odin, Proud Boys, and other such types up close and got very familiar with their tactics, rhetoric, and threats. Pretending they were 'only joking' was a tired gambit to let them say whatever nonsense they wanted and then try to claim the high ground by saying others couldn't take a joke when they get called out. They do this because they know what sort of pushback they would get if they openly said what they believed, but when, unfortunately, you've dealt with enough of these alt-right types you see right through the so-called humor and coded language to see the real intent.
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"Fascism is the death of comedy." - Dave Chappelle The parody is not making light of any thing, systemic racism is wrong, Bungie doesn't even realize that they have inadvertently parodied real world issues by making humans and eliksni racist againts each other. If any thing it uses the game to draw attention to it as our minds make leaps to the parallels between fiction and reality.
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Is John Oliver not allowed to make jokes at the expense of the death penalty, a stupid law that takes away the lives of innocent people, are people not allowed to joke about adolf looks like that one Cars villain that nobody likes. At least for me humor is my way of coping with the fact that we live in a world where war criminals leap around in the government, walking free, and that we consider it fine to use chemical weapons on our own civilians when we’ve threatened war with others for doing so. This joke seems to come from a similar spot. It’s not praising the fact racism is still so prevalent in our “justice” system, it’s shaming it. The punchline is literally how badly we treat the black community to the point where it can almost be compared to a fantasy race. Is it a perfect analogy, no but it gets the point across that we can and have to be better, but instead of making you feel emotionally depressed and done with humanity’s shit it makes you laugh at how shitty it is and want to fix things
