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The Great Republican Political Strategy of Insult Puerto Rico for Some Reason (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 week ago by usernamesAreTricky@lemmy.ml to c/whitepeopletwitter@sh.itjust.works

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[–] taladar@sh.itjust.works 77 points 1 week ago (10 children)

The main difference is that the UK used to be powerful and did a lot of bad things to a lot of countries around the world. Puerto Rico on the other hand has always been weak so it feels weird for someone in a much more powerful area of the world to pick on them.

[–] cpw@lemmy.ca 66 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Good comedy can punch up, but very rarely works when punching down. Punching down is generally just bullying in disguise.

[–] Throw_away_migrator@lemmy.world 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think Anthony Jeselnik sums it up pretty well

https://youtu.be/4mCAl85hLkU?si=vwEMzE15kfHJMddV

[–] Karjalan@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Jeselnik is a class act. What's interesting to me is that the guy in the op, essentially has the same Roast style as Jeselnik. But the way they execute it is key.

I saw some of the ops bits from a comedy central roast, and they were really funny... But when you put him in the context of being at a trump rally wave saying stuff like this it's like "ohhh, you're not making subvertive jokes, you're just a bigot hiding behind 'comedy'"

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