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Devac · 582 days ago · link · · parent · post: Trevor Noah's Full Speech at 2022 White House Correspondents' Dinner
In 2003-ish, there was a pretty big market for cheaply printed joke books in Poland, and one month they printed Black jokes. Someone objected to it as offensive, so they reprinted a find-and-replace version with same material, but this time about Blue people. I guess it's both the proof and a show of just how lazy comedy can be.When I grew up there was one form of deprecatory humor that was safe, no matter what: Polack jokes. [...] Persecuted Eastern European minorities? Might as well pick on the Martians.