Racist jokes can persist even inside sincere interracial friendships through charitable attribution
Evidence
Filip is friends with a host of Black fighters, and those friendships mean something to him. His use of the “N-word”, in his mind, would have been a harmless drunken joke. This of course does not strip back the potency of a word with racist, violent and colonial history, but is how Filip interprets it, as he maintains not just a convivial disposition, but an outwardly anti-racist (or opposed to racism) worldview, regularly expressing a disdain for far-right politics in Poland and beyond. People were tolerant of Filip’s comments, even in their condemnation of them, putting it down to stupidity and cultural misunderstandings, which were accepted due to Filip being a fighter within the space. — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 82
Categorization
- corroborated: 4 independent passages support this claim — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 82
- XREF: connects to: Joking sequences deliberately extinguish any serious topic raised in working-class groups — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics: how Americans…, 1932; Racially inflected banter can coexist with genuine interracial friendship — Amit Singh, “Carnal conviviality” and the end of…, 70