- Dołączono
- 29 Maj 2021
People could in theory do black comedy about rape or other really dark topics. But what you can't EVER do as a comedian is tell "jokes" about being a rapist yourself or implying that you are a rapist. That doesn't meet any definition of a "joke".Imma be real. Black comedy is funny is you hit the mark otherwise it's fucked up. Rape jokes have far less of a margin of error and Child Rape jokes? Just fucking don't.
It creates among other things an immediate poe's law situation.
There are no clues or tells in any of Vito's stuff to even slightly suggest it was a "joke" while at the same time, there is a WHOLE LOT of stuff about Vito's behavior that would lead rational people to take it really seriously.
Nick wants to say that the criticism of Vito is no different than the labeling of various people on the right as racists, woman-haters and so on. But it is very different. The people in those spaces didn't proudly go out in public and declare that they were racists as a "joke" or anything else.
Getting labeled a racist based on a strung-together theory of random things said with questionable reasoning behind the charge is very different than suffering negative stuff after going out in public and saying "I am a proud racist"