RE: Do You Think This is Funny?
September 27, 2015 at 8:22 pm
(This post was last modified: September 27, 2015 at 8:26 pm by Regina.)
This "what did your last slave die of?" was actually said by my grandmother to my brother yesterday. I don't think much of it, it's just a sassy little reply people love throwing around. It's not particularly funny but I don't see it as offensive either. When people say it, it's usually in a context that isn't about race. I mean yesterday it was my very white grandmother saying it to my slightly less white brother.
I've seen other more obvious racial "slave humour" used that just suck though. Some kid at school thought it was cute to title a letter to a Kenyan kid "dear slave" and was promptly given the verbal smackdown by the teacher, thankfully before it was sent.
I've seen other more obvious racial "slave humour" used that just suck though. Some kid at school thought it was cute to title a letter to a Kenyan kid "dear slave" and was promptly given the verbal smackdown by the teacher, thankfully before it was sent.
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"Ironically like the nativist far-Right, which despises multiculturalism, but benefits from its ideas of difference to scapegoat the other and to promote its own white identity politics; these postmodernists, leftists, feminists and liberals also use multiculturalism, to side with the oppressor, by demanding respect and tolerance for oppression characterised as 'difference', no matter how intolerable." - Maryam Namazie
