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Originally posted by Dottore
Satire is a form of humor. You either get it or you don't.
Richards was NOT doing a satirical piece about niggers and crackers. He was engaged in a racist and vicious personal attack on someone. I think the words were that "50 years ago he would have been swinging from a tree etc".
What exactly do you not get about this distinction????
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And how do you know he wasn't doing a satirical piece? How do you know that Chris Rock really doesn't hate white people and means what he says when he is doing his comedy act that you consider satire?
My point is that your perception of their intentions is entirely colored by your own personal bias. You have no earthly way of knowing what Richards' intentions were in that moment. Perhaps he was trying to be a racist ass, perhaps he was just being satirical.
It has become accepted for black people to make racial comments. It is considered the norm, funny even. When a white comedian does the same, however, all hell breaks loose. It the same stupid dichotomy that exists around the "n" word. Black men use it as a term of endearment. Let a white man use it though, and you might end up getting shot. I don't call my friends crackers, whiteys or any other slur, do you? Why is it that the black community has such different rules from the rest of America? I don't see Paul Rodriguez calling his fellow hispanics wetbacks...