Can you please elaborate? He was born in 1984, and apartheid ended in South Africa in 1994. Did the law against interracial marriage end before apartheid ended?
Same.
As for the stuff before, in no way does it sound like his joke is, “White people think Wakanda is real.” It comes across as just a silly riff with maybe a little best-life fantasizing thrown in.
How fragile would a person have to be to take a dig like this personally?
I’m not sure. What would the equivalent dig be, in reverse? If a white guy up on stage breaks into a foreign language long enough to say — what, exactly?
Yes,in 1985
I laughed my butt off. As did Madame Pepperwinkle and all the other members of my family.
It’s mindboggling the mental gymnastics some people perform. That was literally the damn jpunchline.
In his book, Noah gives many later examples of problems due to his mixed parentage. For example, he says his father could not walk with him and his mother, but had to walk on the other side of the street. If he is walking this would be after he turned one.
Whatever the legal situation in South Africa at various times in his life, the huge giant overwhelming point is that he of all people is allowed to take shots at whitey if he feels like it. And whitey should keep their mouth shut about it.
But I think he’s funny. And I said so six years ago, long before The Daily Show, after seeing him at the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival.
I tend to be sensitive that digs to whites (males especially) are fair game, but if you flip them around to a minority there would be huge offense.
In this case flip it around to a white quoting a Latin saying that actually translates to “Black people don’t know I’m lying”. And of course, like Noah’s “joke” actually 99.99% of the planet wouldn’t understand it.
Those were two different jokes, dude. Did you seriously not realize that?
So “digs” at entire races are ok sometimes, depending entirely on which race is being “dug”?
Isn’t that exactly what racism is?
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No, they weren’t. Please don’t ever try to explain comedy above second grade level.
Believe me, I will stop trying to explain comedy to you.
Yeah, racism is taking a dig at apartheid. Keep digging that hole.
It was a fun little joke.
I think the fact that people are freaking out over it makes it even funnier. Do people never even watch “The Daily Show”?
You do realize you’re lecturing a South African, right?
Yes, I’m aware of that. Why should that interfere with a slam against apartheid? Or an accurate account of a book he may not have read?
And the context is my speaking as an American commenting on Noah’s joke on an American broadcast to an American audience, which was dissed by an American poster. That poster needed to have recognized Noah’s context, just as you should have recognized mine.
Why are we even talking about Apartheid?
Personally, having had people ask me to say something (anything) in another language I am fluent in, the joke was especially funny. If tales of my early childhood are correct, I once said something like “you two are dumb” to a pair of girls who had no idea what I was saying and thought it was the cutest thing:D.
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