It’s OK to make offensive jokes at campaign rallies if you’re a Democrat
By
Christopher Tremoglie
October 30, 2024 10:11 am
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On Saturday, a comedian at a Harris–Walz rally made a joke about Mexican people being thieves, drawing laughter from throngs of Harris-Walz supporters. Another joke followed that, once again, ridiculed Latinos community, this time for not being able to “split a check at a restaurant.” Again, the remark drew nothing but laughter from the crowd.
There was no outrage. There weren’t any calls of condemnation. There weren’t any requests to denounce the jokester. There weren’t any accusations of racism. There were just people laughing at a joke a comedian made that used racist tropes about an ethnic group. Democrats find racial and ethnic humor just so long as the person telling the jokes is also a Democrat or at least performing in a Democrat-friendly environment.
The comedian’s name was George Lopez, who is of Mexican descent. This is important given the performative outrage and pearl-clutching done by Democrats, liberals, and other hyperbolic hysterics by Harris supporters in the last 48 hours after supposed funny guy Tony Hinchcliffe made a disparaging “joke” about Puerto Rico. He then made additional offensive and insulting comments about other racial minorities. Yet Lopez’s remarks were arguably just as offensive, demeaning, and insulting. However, Democrats said nothing.
The main difference is that Lopez is a Democrat, and Hinchcliffe was performing under the banner of former President Donald Trump. What the Harris supporters and Democrats will say, however, is that Lopez’s racist and discriminatory behavior was permissible because of his ethnicity — as if the sole determining factor to categorize whether something is racist, bigoted, or discriminatory is dependent on the race, ethnicity, or the skin color of the person who said it. Because Lopez is of Mexican descent, it’s OK if he demeans them or insults them in an offensive manner.
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