Le Wed, Jul 16, 2025 at 07:30:46PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez a écrit : > I have a very hard time understanding how in two adjacent paragraphs you > can say both "Sexism, racism and such are not, never were, and can not > be funny." and also "making fun of cis-het white males can be offensive, > and it’s OK." You sound like a hypocrite. > > So, are sexism, racism and such *never* OK, or are they only OK when > they're directed at whatever group or groups you happen to think it is > acceptable to oppress? Society has been there before (some group decides > that another group should be oppressed, marginalized, exploited, > eradicated, or whatever) and the results were not good. It doesn't make > sense for you to claim a commitment to non-oppression and then make > allowance for it at the same time.
I get where the confusion is coming from. I am indeed saying that sexism, racism, etc. are never OK. But that jokes targeted at the dominant group are not racism or sexism. There is no such thing, in our current society, as anti-white racism or anti-male sexism. Because these -ism are about enforcing an oppression, and there is, by definition, no oppression happening against the dominant group. I know it can be a bit hard to grasp that these systems are not symmetric, and that a same thing can be OK or not OK depending on whether the dominant group or an oppressed group is targeted. Still, one is reinforcing an existing systemic oppression, while the other is not. Does that make it clearer where I am standing on this topic?
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