Ayman, what comes to your mind when you talk about racism? Is it how asians are called calculators? how mexicans are called gardeners? or how asians (including south asians) have relatively smaller penises? or how hairy an Italian man’s chest is? Yes, this is very much racism and these things do “offend” people here in our very comfortable world where we can afford to laugh at these things.
Let’s talk racism taking place outside our comfy bubble that we live in. What about the fact that 4 million muslims have died in Western wars since the 1990–let me break it down for you — between 1,300,000 people died post 9/11 — 110,000 civilian killings in Iraq alone, and 220,000 in Afghanistan and 80,000 in Pakistan. Hundreds of innocent people tortured and living in hell in Guantanamo. This is why people get pissed off and become terrorists in the first place. What about the “modern slavery” of Indians in Dubai? What about the aboriginal people losing their land? How about the fact that 70% of the world cocoa is from child labour and slavery in Africa, which is sold to majority of chocolate companies (kids of age 5 to 16 are enslaved so we can munch away on chocolates). In all these issues above, it’s one race trying to be superior to another. Here, in these situations, it would be a privilege for these victims to just get “offended” and move on with their lives.
The point that I’m trying to make — yes, comedians do good in ways you explained in this article BUT only within the boundaries of this tiny “comfy bubble” we live in. It’s the latter part of my previous statement that I’m trying to emphasise this whole time.
The source for the facts I mentioned: