badgenome on 28 February 2014
| Soundwave said: Err ... so explain South Park or Family Guy or Simpsons then? There are many white comedians that make racially charged jokes, see Louis C.K. who's pretty much the hottest thing in comedy today. |
I think you'll find that most "racially charged" comedy is actually making white privilege the butt of the joke, although admittedly this is in many cases only a fig leaf so that someone can make a racist joke and get away with it with his liberal street cred intact.
When ethnic jokes aren't couched on this premise - like Sascha Baron Cohen's unflattering depictions of Arabs, Austrians, and Eastern Europeans, all groups towards whom a Jew might feel some degree of animus - critics become pretty uncomfortable pretty quickly.
