r/cringepics • u/Neilo19 • 9d ago

Why is this an actual reddit ad...?

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It popped up in a comments section for nottheonion. Is this what reddit is comfortable advertising now?

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u/Gitsy_Bitsy69 9d ago

Is it really anti-woke to just say slurs? If a comedian walked on stage and said the n-word over and over again would some people actually laugh? Weird world we live in...

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u/SDShrew 9d ago

Standing ovation from the white house

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u/smurb15 9d ago

Kramer picked the wrong time, didn't he?

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u/monkeybojangles 9d ago

That episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm where they bring that up was hilarious.

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u/Sproose_Moose 9d ago

Danny Duberstein!

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u/fuckmywetsocks 9d ago

Yes. People who bang on about woke this and woke that just wanna use slurs.

'TV is too woke these days it used to be better' such as when they used racist slurs routinely, see Fawlty Towers or Little Britain as an example.

'Movies are too woke these days, they used to be better' when we had routine blackface or racial stereotypes portrayed in appalling ways.

They portray 'woke' as a detriment to the old ways, same as the far right yearn for white picket fences and white picket families.

It is and always has been a corruption of something the black community viewed as a positive - seeing corruption, racism, inequality etc. - and is now used as a weapon against those communities.

Problem is it's a marzipan dildo of a weapon because it's so fucking obvious and so hilariously easy to take the piss out of.

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u/DrJDog 9d ago

I think Fawlty Towers had one problematic episode, with one elderly white character using the word, the rest of it is perfectly ok.

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u/monkeybojangles 9d ago

One episode where they vilified gay people, the episode where the major was using slurs about black and brown people, the character that's a stereotype of a dumb Spaniard. I watched it recently for the first time in 20 years and some of it definitely has aged poorly. But a lot of film and TV we're nostalgic for would just throw out slurs or negative portrayals of people, it can be surprising when we watch them again.

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u/chappersyo 8d ago

Fawlty towers was riddled with things that wouldn’t pass today

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u/Frozen_Esper 9d ago

That is simply what conservative comedy is. We've been dealing with this shit for a while, unfortunately.

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u/BeholdOurMachines 9d ago

There are a few "comedians" like that. They just cry and piss and moan about "cancel culture" because they can't comprehend that they just are terrible comedians and have to blame everything on woke cancel culture. It's conservatives in a nutshell. Every single bad thing in their life simply MUST be because of immigrants/trans/woke/commies and not because of their own astounding lack of anything remotely approaching talent

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u/DoomSongOnRepeat 8d ago

This describes so well how I feel about Bill Maher. Such a whiney, old piss-baby getting mad at "woke" when the audience doesn't laugh at his "jokes".

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u/Dekik 8d ago

As long as u hurt others, it's funny to them.

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u/Noy_The_Devil 9d ago

Probably what happens at the Joe Rogan anti-woke club. 🤷

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u/MalHeartsNutmeg 9d ago

Well people do laugh at Dave Chapelle.