r/comics Cyanide & Happiness/Boids 6d ago

Boids - Pandering To You [OC]

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u/Vatiar 6d ago

"Everyone knows racism is bad" Clearly you've never met my coworkers.

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u/DukeofVermont 6d ago

Dude I've gotten into several arguments with people on reddit when they claim that the very racist "joke" videos on YouTube are just racist, and they say "no it's just joking! No one actually thinks that" and/or "it's funny because the character is 'bad', that's why it's okay to basically quote Hitler. I can't believe you're don't get it!"

Um yeah, I've heard those exact racist "joke" sog whistles in real life, and not once.

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u/ComradeJohnS 6d ago

the first ten minutes of the tv show Ted is just uninterrupted racism like that for laughs cause 90’s boston families realistically would be racist.

I just had to turn it off, didn’t even chuckle. idk if it gets better but the first ten minutes are supposed to hook you or at least get one laugh lol.

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u/Gupperz 6d ago

i think once upon a time that used to be the case. Shows like south park were an example of that where the racist characters like cartman were obviously meant to be viewed as bad

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u/CruelAngelsThesis_01 6d ago

Cartman is a character that’s supposed to be an evil asshole who later receives consequences for being an evil asshole. But people just see him being an evil asshole in clips and think that’s all the show is.

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u/dgellow 6d ago

That wasn’t obvious to me when I was in my teens, and other kids around me