If you thought Cathy Reisenwitz’s “only squares have a problem with kids doing sex work” take was hot, you’ll no doubt enjoy this one on white people who think adult animated sitcom “The Boondocks” is funny:
I’m watching the Boondocks for the first time and I have feelings. I understand the viewer is supposed to laugh at some of these characters. But I must say it feels gross, as an exceedingly melanin-deficient person, to laugh at Black characters.
— Cathy Reisenwitz 🏗🌐🥑 (@CathyReisenwitz) May 3, 2021
It makes us think, too.
It makes us think that Cathy’s issues actually go pretty deep.
WTF pic.twitter.com/wXeH7muljN
— Fred Martin 🇫🇷 🇭🇹 (@fred_connection) May 4, 2021
The whitest take possible
— UglyBastard Antagonist (@LegitimatelyBad) May 3, 2021
I find Dave Chappelle to be the funniest person on the planet so I guess that makes me a Grand Wizard or something. https://t.co/yuqWCVjAoY
— 𝕃𝕠𝕘𝕚𝕔 (@logicbot3000) May 4, 2021
That’s fine, you can just make Marge Simpson-like worried noises at the screen whenever something funny happens while you’re watching it.
— Psychic War Vet (@Post_Punk_Prick) May 3, 2021
https://twitter.com/long_pig/status/1389370194754146307
You can never be too careful.
149 quote tweets, mostly defending white people laughing at Black characters. Can you imagine that being your cause? pic.twitter.com/aPxFy72MSz
— Cathy Reisenwitz 🏗🌐🥑 (@CathyReisenwitz) May 3, 2021
Is … is there something bad about defending white people who find black characters on an animated comedy about black people funny?
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imagine feeling so different from black people that you dont even feel okay laughing at their jokes
— miv (@mivmivvie) May 3, 2021
Consider the fact that black artists created this show with the intention of making you laugh.
Now imagine how condescending and imperialistic it is to say you feel uncomfortable acknowledging their work.— Andy Genova (@AndyKGenova) May 3, 2021
Womp-womp.
my fav arc of a white person is the one who tries so hard to not be racist they come across as super racist
— fo, the quincy archer that hates you (@grumpy_fo) May 3, 2021
Treating black people like an unknowable other species in order to appear non-racist.
— Brandon (@Burnardthe2nd) May 3, 2021
When you’re so woke you wrap back around to being a racist
— Ron Ron (@RBshadowscale) May 3, 2021
— Siraj Hashmi (@SirajAHashmi) May 4, 2021
The Venn diagram for wokeism and racism is just a circle.
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