Why just laugh?dajo9 said:calbear93 said:Wait, so once the Jewish population gets more powerful, it would be OK to mock them?dajo9 said:calbear93 said:Eastern Oregon Bear said:I can't say I know much about the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, but I heard of them back in the 1980s. If they've been doing charitable work for 35-40 years, I think that's worth some recognition. But I guess the Dodgers are worried about their spring training base in Florida.oski003 said:okaydo said:LA Dodgers bow to pressure from conservatives including Sen. Marco Rubio and have uninvited an LGBTQ charity and drag performance group from participation in Pride Nighthttps://t.co/47nR9Kr1AR
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They were going to give the Community Hero Award to The sisters of perpetual indulgence, who perform as Christian mocking drag queen nuns, rebelling against gender roles and religion.
That seems a bit selective on your part. They were mocking Catholics, so I am not personally impacted. But imagine if they were created to mock Jews (extreme caricatures of Rabbis and Jews) but did some charitable work. Would you still want them honored?
What you ignore in these rants is the power structure of the society. Power structures most definitely put some groups off limits for mocking and other groups within limits for mocking. As comedians say, it's OK to punch up but it's not cool to punch down.
I don't know anything about this group the Dodgers were going to host so I have nothing to say about them. But in general, yes it can be OK to mock Christians in our society but not OK to mock Jews. It's getting to the point where it's OK to mock the non-religious like me, which would not have been the case when I was a kid. We are getting more powerful.
It will never be OK in my book, especially since antisemites use similar arguments that Jewish people have too much power and influence.
No, bigotry is wrong, and once you use "power" to justify bigotry, you get to situations like Germany before WWII where the start of the horror against the Jews were based on how the Jews controlled the economy.
Lol at using anti-semitic tropes about pre-war Jews in Germany as your example defending the powerful. No, it is OK to mock upwards at power structure groups. Sorry. I don't make the rules.
Truly asking. If someone believed the fallacy that the Jews controlled the economy or the media, it would be OK for them to "punch upwards" and mock the Jews? That cannot be right, could it?
You and I will just choose to disagree on this. Same type of reason Asians were attacked during the 80s with the thought that the Japanese had too much power, same with the tripe antisemitism about Soros, same type of nonsense by QAnon about some all powerful cabal justifying their bigotry, etc.
Power position is subjective and can lead to a semitruck wide loophole for bigotry of all kinds.
