I have no idea who this Louis fellow is but the set that is causing so much inexplicable turmoil is mildly funny and very little else. I have no idea why people are freaking about it so much.
Here is the set:
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Because it’s racist by admission and trivialises pedophilia?
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The examples of “racism” that the comedian gives are funny because they are not in the least racist. That’s the whole point of the joke.
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Having to calm yourself down when a black person in a hood enters the room isn’t racist?
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No.
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To expound on that, getting nervous at the presence of a young black adult male in a hood is not racist.
Getting nervous at the presence of a young black adult male in a three piece suit is racist.
(yeah there’s class stuff mixed in there, but as I’ve said – the most important class markers are within races and are often unreadable to those outside)LikeLike
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“Having to calm yourself down when a black person in a hood enters the room isn’t racist?”
- Let’s not trivialize racism.
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It’s a more mild case of racism, but it comes from an attitude that damages minorities, particularly black people, and it still unfairly impacts them.
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Imho, it’s important to pinpoint the butt of the jokes, before getting upset.
In the first case, it was himself and the mentality he was raised by, not people of colour; in the second case, it was the pedophiles, not the children.LikeLike
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