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Originally Posted by btimbit
You're not wrong but it's no different than any other comedy based on race or stereotypes. This one is "ha ha drunk Indians" but what about the "ha ha lazy Mexicans" or "ha ha dumb rednecks", etc.
I get that this one hits a little closer to home because of the demographic in this area but to me it's still just comedy. And like I said, my wife is half native, the #### they're joking about on Brocket I've seen from my dumbass brother in law and her cousins. I like being able to make light of it, it's just a bit of fun.
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Yeah, fair enough. I guess it depends on the spirit of the thing, and the spirit of that thing (to me at least) never seemed to be a "we're laughing with you" parody, its got a somewhat darker "we're laughing at you" feeling to it.
Like I can laugh at Chris Rock talking about being poor and his family using Robitussin to treat every ailment including a broken leg, but he's not actually insulting black people, he's making a joke about something he knows, including his own family.
Maybe the guys behind Brocket99 were just a couple dinks screwing around at work and the truth is "they weren't hateful, or racist, they were just having a laugh about people they know", but it never came across that way to me.