Just got told by my younger brother that I can't be happy in life if i keep nitpicking. Because he was showing me a funny thing and there was this brown guy who was playing ishow speed and he was wearing dark makeup. So i said he's kinda doing black face. And my brother disagrees and said it's not that deep. So we argued from there. Idk if I'm wrong or not. He says that the guy way just acting as a character so it's not that disrespectful. After that idk if i just ruined the mood or not. Tell me if i was wrong for that i want to know so that i don't do that in the future.
@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'
@Ten_sura So then, you support the bullying people do to black people when they cosplay characters that are not black, like that black chick that killed herself because of the comments in her cosplay videos? with that comment, you support that white people shouldn't do black characters so black shouldn't cosplay as asian or white characters (from anime or other media)? Getting a "blackface" is the same as a dude putting a fricking towel on his head to act as a woman, it is not that deep, unless he is doing that to humiliate women, in which that changes things, blackface is the literally same thing, wearing a mexican hat, doing the asian eyes, making the british accent, and so on, they can all be done unless your purpose is to target and attack that what you are dressing as.
@Finn Your brother is right, if you go through life nitpicking everything, you will be stressed over everything, Ten_sura said "Its not a joke if the other party is not laughing." that is true but at the same time it is not, let me give you an example: "why did the chicken cross the road, to get to the other side" You get what the joke is, right? the chicken wanted to die so they cross the road to go to "the other side" and that's a normal joke, however, what if a person who knows someone who wants to or already commited suicide hears the joke? it's not funny for them and even triggering, but was the joke meant to target those people? nope, it was a wordplay, you can dissect every joke and find someone that will be offended by it, does that means that we should ban all comedy? most of the times things are really not that deep, but it will depend on whether you want to overanalyze things and find an angle to be offended or not.
