• Repple (she/her)@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    What in the joke makes him racist but not misogynistic?

    There’s nothing in the joke saying she’s either the only black person or the only woman in the bar. In fact you could say that there’s more pointing to him being misogynistic in that he says “this woman” and not “this black person”.

    To me it reads as both

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      1 month ago

      That just depends on the order of attributes you prefer to use to refer to a person.

      For me gender or age would usually come first rather than race

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        1 month ago

        Okay, that’s a fair point as to that comment not making it more sexist than racist, but not for it only being racist. I don’t see anything in the story pointing to race over sex.

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          1 month ago

          I would argue that mentioning race at all is what makes it more of a racist thing.

          Like, why say that woman was black at all then?

          But it’s all just semantics, it’s a fake story that has both aspects in it, and it doesn’t really matter if it’s one or the other

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      1 month ago

      He bought drinks for all the other non-black women in the bar, so gender doesn’t appear to factor into it for him.