To want to know why some of these tweets are allowed?

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Daily Mail link to Avengers Mean Tweets Article

I didn't realise racism was funny

Kimmel has being doing those mean tweets for years. The celebs generally take them in good humour, they're often so ridiculously OTT or silly that they aren't taken to heart.

Oh I know about him getting them read out etc usually it's a funny piece however if these tweets were read out by the black actors...particulalry the Scarlett Johansson "I hate white people" one there would be uproar and arrests and protests etc

Agreed. The others are just insulting but saying "I hate white people" is clearly racist and unacceptable.

Honestly though there are loads of awful things on Twitter. I report things all the time.

The butt of the joke is the writer of the tweet.

Where is the racist tweet?

3 of them allude to race.

I thought the same! Why is it acceptable to be casually racist online.

Yes. They do.

As Ricky Gervais would say, stupid people get offended by jokes. The intelligent get offended by the thing being joked about.

The humour comes from the shock of the stupidity and ignorance of the message (Scarlet's), the whitey one seems like an observation (and I'd agree) and how is the third one offensive?

I know the premise of "mean tweets" it's a funny bit of telly. I'm simply asking if someone tweeted "I hate black people" and It were read on telly as a joke or "bet he's one of THOSE black people" or "that's such a black name a cool white person wouldn't have it"

How would that be taken?

It isn't racist. In any way. At all.

How so?

"How would that be taken?"

You'd laugh at the ignorance of the person who'd written the tweet. Exactly the same way.

There is also the completely moronic argument that an -ism needs privilege as well. An oppressed class can't be xxx. Admittedly I've only ever seen it written on feminist boards as an excuse for hating men. 'It can't be sexist as men have all the power etc'

Swap white for black and you'd have uproar.

Oh come on!

If you swap white for black it wouldn't be the same at all. White people aren't an oppressed group.

Does anyone really feel oppressed or threatened or offended by 'whitie'?

I don't buy into the whole oppression bollocks of racism that gets trotted out when this comes up. It's either okay to say you hate people of a different skin colour to yourself or it isn't.

racism
ˈreɪsɪz(ə)m/
noun
prejudice, discrimination, or antagonism directed against someone of a different race based on the belief that one's own race is superior.
"a programme to combat racism"
synonyms: racial discrimination, racialism, racial prejudice/bigotry, xenophobia, chauvinism, bigotry, bias, intolerance; More
the belief that all members of each race possess characteristics, abilities, or qualities specific to that race, especially so as to distinguish it as inferior or superior to another race or races.
"theories of racism"

Bugger all to do with oppression

Hi OP, here is some reading you might find useful:

medium.com/@CyanideBlue/you-cant-be-racist-against-white-people-d779e7531547

www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/reverse-racism-isnt-a-thing_us_55d60a91e4b07addcb45da97

A blog and a well written but off topic bit from the Huff Post?

Reverse racism isn't a thing. The OP agrees. It's just called racism.