Are you a bad person if you laugh at The Amazing Racist?
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T'Chenka
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« on: February 01, 2020, 08:22:20 PM »

I used to watch these and laugh when I was younger but now I feel like it's pretty f__ked up. That being said, I still laugh at it, but now it makes me feel extremely guilty to do so. Is it wrong to laugh at and enjoy this kind of content? I know he uses actors exclusively, and he's a jew himself, and he's not actually a racist, but is that a good enough excuse for this?

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« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2020, 09:06:42 PM »

I used to watch these and laugh when I was younger but now I feel like it's pretty f__ked up. That being said, I still laugh at it, but now it makes me feel extremely guilty to do so. Is it wrong to laugh at and enjoy this kind of content? I know he uses actors exclusively, and he's a jew himself, and he's not actually a racist, but is that a good enough excuse for this?

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No, just no...

Dark humour is not a bad thing if it's a simple joke and nothing more.

It's especially a thing in more "non-PC" nations. I've laughed at some heavy sh**t, ranging from mild stuff to jokes about prisoners in Nazi Camps, but seeing as a lot of my family died in those same camps, I'm not exactly not disgusted at what actually happened there.

Hell, I even told one of these jokes to my Grandma who was orphaned by the Nazis when she was 4 and she instinctively laughed as well, simply because it was a clever joke.

That being said, there are also people who use "jokes" to disguise things that they actually believe but don't want to say outright. 
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2020, 11:26:28 AM »

In the second video, he actually looks more Jewish than the customers that frequent the supermarket. That is part of what makes it amusing.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2020, 06:52:10 PM »

To me it's just lazy and unfunny. Ari Shaffir is trying way too hard to be Sacha Baron Cohen or The Impractical Jokers here. But they know how to do it way better.

This is from 'Inappropriate Comedy,' right? Isn't that movie considered one of the worst films of the last decade?
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Meclazine for Israel
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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2020, 07:14:05 PM »
« Edited: February 02, 2020, 09:15:25 PM by Meclazine »

He's just not funny because it is simple racism.

I prefer the comedy of Key and Peele who step outside, and look back at a different angle without being offensive to anyone.

Macedonian vs Albanian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52YOsjGINSc

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkTZ8BVAlFE

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