• neidu3@sh.itjust.works
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    5 days ago

    Early 2000s entertainment too. A good portion of the edgy jokes could be considered funny because they were made on the assumption that “We can laugh about this, because we all know racism and sexism is bad, right?”.

    And then 2015ish happened and it became obvious that a lot of people weren’t laughing AT the -isms but rather WITH.

    EDIT: Which slur did Ross use, BTW? I haven’t watched that show in eons, and I don’t remember any.

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      5 days ago

      haven’t seen friends but as someone familiar with the zeitgeist it’s almost certainly “retarded”

      which was also all over adult swim at the time and is recently having its renaissance

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      4 days ago

      Thats the same reason I hate Trailer Park Boys.

      So much of it is laughing at the poors. I know people who are so sheltered and middleclass they think “LoL can you imagine if people lived like this”

      Bruh, you ever known people born into generatiknal poverty?

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          I think you have what I mean twisted. What life is like for people stuck in the poverty or trailer park cycle is not a universal experience and for all the people that do get it or do empathise and have an understanding that “this is a window into a world I’m not from presented in a humorous way” theres someone sitting there laughing thinking that the whole thing is a wild exaggeration, laughing at the idea that people are really like that or using it to confirm their own biases “the parts that confirm my biases are facts and the parts that dont are just entertainment”

          Me hating the show isnt a commentary on its quality, the creators and cast should be very proud of it. I just cant stand to sit and watch it because some of it is too real to be funny as someone who also came up really fucking poor.

          • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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            I think I understand now. It’s like you’re personally bearing the gaze of outsiders who don’t have the context to understand the situation they’ve found you in and mock it.