• BananaIsABerry@lemmy.zip
          31·
          9 hours ago

          It adds to the joke, yes.

          Since you can’t see past your offence, I’ll do my best to explain. The setup for the joke involves starting the comic as though we were listening to or reading a mid 1900s American documentary about native Americans. They achieve this by using similar language to what would be used.

          The punchline then betrays expectations because the character is performing something relatable to a modern person, breaking up with someone by sending them a message.

          The contrast between the setup and the punchline is, in fact, integral to the joke. It’s not that funny, but come on. No one needs you to be offended for them.

          • StinkyFingerItchyBum@lemmy.caEnglish
            4·
            9 hours ago

            The smoke signals were sufficient for the juxtaposition. They are not current practice, in case you weren’t up on the latest developments.

            • lmmarsano@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
              4·
              3 hours ago

              What too little media literacy does to a MFer.

              I need you to understand that I just saw a tweet with 160 thousand likes basically saying “it doesn’t make sense that game of thrones/dance of dragons writers include and write about misogyny for “historical accuracy” when it’s literally all made up.” and half the comments where basically arguing that “if you write about misogyny in a fantasy setting then you enjoy misogyny. There’s no reason for misogyny to exist in a fantasy world”.

              We are unironically this close to twitter discourse about how “Fantasy and sci fi writers who include misogyny and racism in their story are racist and misogynist because they can imagine literally any world and choose to imagine one where racism and misogyny exist”.

              #Media literacy is dead.
              #Tumblr killed it and twitter is violating it’s corpse.
              #This is what fandom did to media literacy guys.

            • FishFace@piefed.socialEnglish
              4·
              5 hours ago

              Oh, so you’re an advocate of the bare minimum, lol. Doesn’t sound like you disagree that it adds to the joke.

      • hoshikarakitaridia@lemmy.world
        36·
        14 hours ago

        Honestly with these ones I assume it’s so blatant that it just makes fun of how stupid those phrases are.

        But I guess they could also just be overtly racist.

        • pjwestin@lemmy.world
          15·
          11 hours ago

          Yeah, if you’re going to use a phrase like this, you need to make your intention crystal clear. If this was an attempt to satirize old, racist tropes, casually using one of those tropes in the first panel of a comic with an unrelated punchline does not achieve that goal.