Racism by definition is a generalisation: applying perceived characteristics and abilities of a race to everyone within that race, giving way to comparisons of superiority or inferiority. Is comedy that utilises racism—or other identity discrimination such as sexism—detrimental to the state of affairs? In other words, does it pronounce and encourage the behaviour of stereotyping?
There’s nothing casual about casual racism
Cosmopolitan magazine published an article about casual racism in the October issue of their magazine (which is no longer on sale). If you missed it, you can download a copy …
