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Originally Posted by rafiki
I never once characterized the discussion as hiding behind "I have a black friend". I'm talking about a black and white (no pun intended) stance being declared with this hipster racism stuff, where jokes that dip into racial topics are considered completely off-limits. I think it's madness because race is a real thing in the world, and we enjoy it/struggle with it/explore it every day. Like all the things we're immersed in, laughter about it to me is positive.
You're wrong if you think that labeling something as "hipster racism" is declaring certain topics to be off-limit.
Racism is more than animus towards those of another race. Hipster racism is a form of racism by those who think that what they do and say can't possibly be racist, since they don't hate black people and often because they identify with the sort of hipster-ish social liberalism that says that racism is wrong. And if they get called out on their racism, they insist that it was a joke or came from some other "good" place and those who are offended are over-reaction.
If you understand that what you are saying is offensive and that those who are being offended are not over-reacting, but you can still find legitimate reasons for saying what you want to say, then maybe you are avoiding hipster racism. That it makes you laugh is not a sufficient reason; there has to be more to than that.