'Beyond reading as plain insensitive and ignorant, these posts send a dark underlying message: The suffering of brown people is trivial unless it’s trendy enough to make you popular on TikTok.' –saruhli
This is a moment when we need our most prominent and influential voices to advocate for those who cannot do so themselves. Many, including Rep. Ilhan Omar’s daughter, have taken to Twitter to call out the hypocrisy of these jokes. On Saturday morning, she: “y’all want to make jokes about innocent lives being lost in Iran and Iraq, imagine how horrible it would be if it was American lives being lost. those getting hit with air strikes aren’t laughing, they are innocent and dying.
Some users have pointed out that dark comedy is many people’s way of coping. Others have fairly counterargued that this is not our trauma to cope with. Being in a position to joke about the horrors of war often means not actually being in the line of fire. Even as
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