On The Jacobin Show, Amber Frost offers a critique of some of the intellectual arguments for mutual aid, debunks the myth that the Black Panther Party's free...
The poster above already turned out to have been misquoting the words. But what I mean is you should hold a grudge against someone for the specific words of a joke when you aren't even sure if that's their opinion.
You're right in that in general, "it was just a joke" IS a bad excuse if you said something awful. But when the comedy podcaster denounces some specific organizing strategy in over-the-top terms, anathematizing them is an inadequate reaction. Like, being offended at a joke is valid, but taking issue with a highly specific political stance when it was probably exaggerated as a joke is silly.
The poster above already turned out to have been misquoting the words. But what I mean is you should hold a grudge against someone for the specific words of a joke when you aren't even sure if that's their opinion.
You're right in that in general, "it was just a joke" IS a bad excuse if you said something awful. But when the comedy podcaster denounces some specific organizing strategy in over-the-top terms, anathematizing them is an inadequate reaction. Like, being offended at a joke is valid, but taking issue with a highly specific political stance when it was probably exaggerated as a joke is silly.