Comment by Ten_sura on Finn

@Finn often times when people use the 'its not that deep' card...it usually is that deep. I agree with you on feeling uncomfortable about that. Personally, I’ve been noticing how so many memes and ‘jokes’ today still come of on old stereotypes about Black people. Even the slang used, like people casually using AAVE phrases such as ‘lit,’ or saying ‘period', often gets appropriated without credit to the culture it came from which is usually black. The thing is, comedy didn’t really start out neutral (maybe it did way back when, but that's not the point here). A lot of it evolved from things like blackface and mocking Black people, and those patterns still show up in modern memes. So when someone darkens their skin to play a character, even if they don’t mean harm, it connects back to that history. That’s why it feels off and that's why it’s not just about one skit and it is that deep. You weren’t wrong to point it out. It’s valid to notice these things, even if others think you’re nitpicking. Sometimes what looks like ‘just a joke’ is really just part of a long, disgusting tradition. Its not a joke if the other party is not laughing. Its not a joke if it involves mocking and putting down another person or group. And it most definitely isn't a joke if someone takes it back and says 'its not that deep'