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In reply to the discussion: i was wrong about the level of racism here, and in the US in general,and im sorry. [View all]MADem
(135,425 posts)A joke has a set up, a delivery, a punch line. That comment the poster made was simply an observation about perspectives during a specific era.
If you were indeed present at tapings, you know what I'm talking about even if you struggling to remain obtuse as to my point.
It's not all about it being "Oooooh so funny"--it's about expressing amazement/disbelief/look-back-in-curiosity at an attitude that was common, that one knew it when one saw it.
There's a difference between "laughing at" and "recognizing." No one is laughing, but I sure as hell am recognizing.
I do know how jokes work--and that wasn't a joke. It was a point being made, an evocation of a moment in time. Maybe you're the one who needs to go back to joke school, if you thought that a "joke" was all that was going on there. There was absolutely no "endorsement" happening, and you're trying to insinuate the very opposite.