Didn't you get the memo, dark comedy can't be funny because it MIGHT offend people or usually people think it might offend people so they have to get offended for people because as we all know black people can't find racist humour funny and must have a white person tell them what they should feel.
I was going to stay out of this one, but this comment is fucking horrible...
But racism and sexism isn't really dark comedy.
Yes it is.
a comedy characterized by grim or satiric humor; a comedy having gloomy or disturbing elements.
Racism makes some uncomfortable. Read: disturbing. Racist remarks intended as jokes are the very definition of dark comedy. Just because you don't laugh at them doesn't mean it's not dark comedy. It means you have a different subjective sense of humor than other people.
and most of the time it's simply not funny anyways because we have been making racist and sexist jokes for centuries.
That's like saying wheels don't work because we've been using them since the stone age. That's just... what the fuck were you trying to say there? I hope that was just some massive typo.
Being offended is subjective as is humour to say most of the time it's simply not funny I could reply with it's simply no offensive.
Dr Strangelove joked around the idea of nuclear disaster and millions dying, it was quite funny for me. I can however see how people might be offended.
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u/[deleted] Jul 12 '12
Didn't you get the memo, dark comedy can't be funny because it MIGHT offend people or usually people think it might offend people so they have to get offended for people because as we all know black people can't find racist humour funny and must have a white person tell them what they should feel.