I’m Only Kidding
On Racist and Ethnic Jokes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21395211 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Nicola Carroll (0000-0001-8344-1220, corresponding author), Noël Carroll |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 58 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 534-546 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Southern Journal of Philosophy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0038-4283 • E-ISSN: 2041-6962 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/sjp.12391 |
| OpenAlex | W3094536984 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 11 |
Toward the end of his book Jokes , perhaps the best known philosophical treatment of the subject, Ted Cohen includes a notorious joke about a group of young Black men who are deterred from committing a gang rape by being thrown a basketball. This is a joke that perplexes Cohen and that he admits plays into stereotypes that presuppose the mindless obsession of Black youths with basketball as well as their unbridled sexuality. He agrees that the joke is morally bad and that it would be a better world without it. But he denies that its evil compromises its alleged funniness. He writes: “Wish that there were no mean jokes. Try remaking the world so that such jokes will have no place, will not arise. But do not deny that they are funny. That denial is a pretense that will help nothing.” In this paper, I want to challenge the claim that the moral defectiveness of a joke, especially a racist joke, cannot ever compromise its capacity to be funny
Aesthetics · Art · Basketball · Compromise · Denial · Epistemology · Joke · Literature · Nothing · Psychoanalysis · Social science · Sociology · Wish · Ethics, Aesthetics, and Art · History · Humor Studies and Applications · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment
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Presidential address to the annual conference of the Australasian Association of Philosophy, delivered on July 7, 2024 at the University of Western AustraliaOnly Joking
Amoralism and jokes
Humour and humanism. The role of funniness in an imperfect life
Racial humour in Finnish schools
Santa Banta jokes
| Unique citing works | 11 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,75 |
| Citation span | 2022 - 2026 (5) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 11 |