This paints a sad reality to the fact that people do not feel comfortable or free enough to express their thoughts due to fear of social and academic persecution in a university, a place historically has been a safe haven for “dangerous ideas”. I don’t know what you are trying to say here but I suspect that you are enabling this sad reality and seek to further de-platforming non-mainstream ideas. People’s mind and opinion are malleable and if someone happens to have a different or perhaps dangerous opinion it is the role of the instructor [This comic is specifically talking… Read more »
I think that is a very well thought out reply and analysis of the comment above. I can’t help but agree and almost cower at the fact that I found this joke funny. But the reason I found it so funny is that I can relate to that, a lot of the time I have an “idea” or “opinion” I am confused about and say that its devils advocate or will somehow make it seem as if it is not my own idea or opinion. Sometimes I just play “devils” advocate for the sake of hearing both sides of the… Read more »
Bananist
3 years ago
So the idea is to take jokes having nothing to do with White Guys, and wrap them inside a gratuitous “White Guy” meme to make 2020 racebait agitprop. There are many problems with this, the most obvious of which is that compulsively denouncing Whitey is not funny.
Forgetting to take off the ratty AF1’s at the potluck (most Asian households don’t take kindly to shoes in the house!)
Taurus
April 20 - May 20
Wearing your only red t-shirt to every final (Red is a lucky color in many cultures, especially Chinese cultures)
Gemini
May 21 - June 20
Putting spiders in your friend’s wedding dress for good luck (Has its origins in old english folklore, and represents abundance for the couple)
Cancer
June 21 - July 22
Accidentally summoned a ghost by leaving their chopsticks straight up (A superstition that has Chinese origins because the chopsticks are reminiscent of funeral incense)
Leo
July 23 - August 22
Didn’t like your friends significant other so they gifted them an umbrella (The word for umbrella ‘san’ sounds like the word for divorce in Chinese)
Virgo
August 23 - September 22
Believing in horoscopes (The modern western zodiac actually came from Babylonian astrology)
Libra
September 23 - October 22
Walked backwards in Portugal to live out the Faust fantasy (In Portugal, walking backwards allows the devil to know exactly where you are)
Scorpio
October 23 - November 21
Stole a raven from the tower of london as reparations (According to UK superstition, if there aren’t 6 ravens in the tower, the kingdom will fall)
Sagittarius
November 22 - December 21
Breaks a knuckle knocking on wood for good scores on finals (Knocking on wood may have originated from the Celts and their love for tree spirits)
Capricorn
December 22 - January 19
Drunkenly rearranging their apartment for the feng shui at 3 AM (A Chinese cultural practice that harmonizes a person with the energies of the environment around them)
Aquarius
January 20 - February 18
Left out their middle name on their taxes because the Fae run the IRS (Giving the Fae your full name gives them power over you, and the IRS has too much)
Pisces
February 19 - March 20
Hit by a car but the license plate had an angel number (Beyond just blowing up on TikTok, angel numbers were invented by... Pythagoras)
This paints a sad reality to the fact that people do not feel comfortable or free enough to express their thoughts due to fear of social and academic persecution in a university, a place historically has been a safe haven for “dangerous ideas”. I don’t know what you are trying to say here but I suspect that you are enabling this sad reality and seek to further de-platforming non-mainstream ideas. People’s mind and opinion are malleable and if someone happens to have a different or perhaps dangerous opinion it is the role of the instructor [This comic is specifically talking… Read more »
I think that is a very well thought out reply and analysis of the comment above. I can’t help but agree and almost cower at the fact that I found this joke funny. But the reason I found it so funny is that I can relate to that, a lot of the time I have an “idea” or “opinion” I am confused about and say that its devils advocate or will somehow make it seem as if it is not my own idea or opinion. Sometimes I just play “devils” advocate for the sake of hearing both sides of the… Read more »
So the idea is to take jokes having nothing to do with White Guys, and wrap them inside a gratuitous “White Guy” meme to make 2020 racebait agitprop. There are many problems with this, the most obvious of which is that compulsively denouncing Whitey is not funny.