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Is this kind of thing still socially acceptable on the left?

Tom Pitt

Tom Pitt

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I was going through old Chris Rock stand up videos on youtube, and stumbled on this one. I'm a 90s kid and this video came out about 29 years ago. I am really surprised this was apparently socially acceptable to say at the time. This site seems more liberal leaning than the typical american. Would you say this is socially acceptable today on the left coming from a black man? It seems like the goal posts have shifted a bit


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It wasn't socially acceptable for 99.9% of people to say, but Rock was a very good black comedian, he was able to get away with it because he was making people think about it - like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Lenny Bruce, etc, etc, etc.

If I recall, this was the bit that Michael Scott did in the Office and got in trouble for. Or was it David Brent?
 
Tom Pitt said:
I was going through old Chris Rock stand up videos on youtube, and stumbled on this one. I'm a 90s kid and this video came out about 29 years ago. I am really surprised this was apparently socially acceptable to say at the time. This site seems more liberal leaning than the typical american. Would you say this is socially acceptable today on the left coming from a black man? It seems like the goal posts have shifted a bit


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I didn't like this set then and I don't like it now.

Too many times hearing this joke before he said it from racist white dudes. This was an old joke when he did that set.
 
Sardines said:
I didn't like this set then and I don't like it now.

Too many times hearing this joke before he said it from racist white dudes. This was an old joke when he did that set.
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In fairness the 40 states with trashy white people living in a trailer eating mayonnaise sandwiches boinking their sister listen to John Cougar Mellenkamp was in it. Pretty funny that part haha
 
fishonjazz said:
I was years ago but not anymore
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It got old and tired really. When I was a kid it was everywhere, in the 70's and early 80's. Eenie meenie minie moe ended in "catch a N****er by the toe", and pollock, mexican, and black jokes were everywhere as kids. We didn't even really know what it meant. But now it is just tired and old and dumb. Time to move on, imo.
 
It's not just racial stand up, you could do this with a ton of general comedy movies from the past. In general it seems like society has less tolerance for mildly offensive material.

Maybe it's not society in general, but rather there is now a critical mass of people that either don't enjoy this type of comedy, or don't think this type of comedy should even exist.
 
AlaskanAssassin said:
It's not just racial stand up, you could do this with a ton of general comedy movies from the past. In general it seems like society has less tolerance for mildly offensive material.

Maybe it's not society in general, but rather there is now a critical mass of people that either don't enjoy this type of comedy, or don't think this type of comedy should even exist.
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Oftentimes, those people don’t enjoy much of anything and are always miserable about something.
 
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