Bradleigh wrote:
That sounds like a sentence to describe an old racist joke, meant to poke fun at people fighting against racism by showing them being attacked by 'thugs' that they are trying to protect. And then wondering why people are saying that their joke was racist.
Not quite the case. The satirical article was a response to the CEO of Chick-fil-A suggesting that white people should shine black people's shoes as some sort of gesture. Which is about as sensible an idea for correcting racism as the following:
- Black people should go door to door performing in whiteface
- White people should pick cotton on black-owned plantations and learn negro spirituals
- Bring back Jim Crow style racial segregation to keep whites out of black areas (the main joke of the babylonbee article)
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