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Who paid for the spices? If it was the roommate why shouldn’t they move their stuff with them?
You're missing the point. The point is that their roommate was white, and therefore responsible for the actions of every member of their race reaching back for as long as the punchline requires. It's a funny joke, because if you do it with another skin color you are cancelled.
Oh, here I thought it was a history joke in the same vein as saying "My American roommate moved out and took all the oil with him. How do I tell him it's just cooking oil?"
Clearly this is actually a condemnation of the roommate's Inferior White Bloodline and his Ancestral Guilt.
Are we allowed to make jokes about national heritage now, too? Cause I've got some zingers about my old Middle Eastern roommate, but they've been bombing...
If your national Heritage is colonization and slavery... Oof...
Jokes about national heritage are fine - in fact, they're all over this sub.
https://lemmy.world/post/27559507
https://lemmy.world/post/27424779
https://lemmy.world/post/25877958
https://lemmy.world/post/22815483
But simply repeating popular bigotry that people earnestly believe is not a joke, and will not be treated as such.
The downvotes on the comment you answered to tell us a different story though. Ultimately the mods decide, but still
Woah. Ok. So, you have no idea what the term colonizer means, if you think any of those jokes is remotely close to what you posted earlier today.
Lord.
So, that's a no.
Coloniser after colonising the place becomes the land-"Lord". Hence the answer
As a white guy who takes spices seriously: hahahaha.
Why are you getting your panties in a bunch?
Yeah, as a partly-white guy, I can be sensitive about "WHITE PEOPLE BAD" comments, but this? It's a history joke. No one actually thinks that there is a secret lust for spices lurking inside of the White Man(tm) that drives him to crimes of passion.
Yep, agree.
I think it works as a joke precisely because it comes out of left field.
No one is expecting to equate some dude who needs to share a room with a powerful and wealthy British Lord from 2 centuries ago, but you would expect the ex-roomates to be sour with each other (hence why they became ex-), so you're kinda of expecting a mildly vindictive jab or two.
If this was early 1900's England, it'd be a case for a "ooooph, too soon bro...", but by now it's fair play on my book.