racist jokes
Prejudiced comedic material
Racist jokes are jokes that mock, demean, or stereotype people based on their race or ethnicity.
The term is typically pejorative—calling something a racist joke condemns it rather than categorizes it.
What counts as racist varies by era and audience; jokes once considered harmless are now widely seen as offensive, while some argue that context and intent matter: He claims it was just a racist joke, not actual racism.
The phrase often appears in debates about comedy's boundaries and who gets to decide them.
- offensiveCausing displeasure or attack-oriented
- slurInsulting group label
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
- bigotryIntolerance toward differing views
- prejudicePreformed unfavorable opinion
discrimination · humor · dark · crude · insensitive · mockery · punchline · nervous laughter · uncomfortable · cringe · not funny · harmful · ignorant · ethnic · slander · tasteless · taboo · read the room
- discriminationsystemic discrimination, Jim Crow laws, sexism, prejudice, ageism
- adult humorblue humor, bawdy humor, adult material, vulgar humor, profane humor
racist jokesclean comedy
Humor without vulgarity
gentle humor · observational comedy · dad jokes · knock-knock jokes · wordplay
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