[ SECRET POST #2682 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2682 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

From the couple of strips here, it seems pretty funny to me, but there is likely a lot of context I lack because I don't read it or watch the show.

[(Anonymous)]

Can you explain to me why it's funny? I don't get it.

[(Anonymous)]

Well, I can try. It's hard to explain funny.

In the first strip, it's funny that the boy is mocking the girl, because she's like OH LIFE IS SO HARD BECAUSE I'M BIRACIAL and he's like YEAH FUCK THAT LIFE IS SO HARD I'M BLACK.

In the second strip, it's just kind of a continuation of the first strip because she's obviously hung up on the fact that she's 1/2 black and she's had the conversation with the boy sooooooo many times that he's like DON'T YOU WANT TO TELL EVERYONE ABOUT YOUR SPECIAL BLACKNESS?!

Sure, it's not sensitive, but a lot of funny things aren't. And I don't get OP's point that the depiction is "misguided" - maybe that's not how OP would react if they were biracial, but everybody's different.

[(Anonymous)]

hmmm I read it a different way entirely-- it seems to me like the boy is saying YOU ARE BLACK AND NEVER FORGET IT THAT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT THING YOU HAVE GOING ON
but then I don't read the comic

[(Anonymous)]

I think it's more, "Everyone around you is going to see and treat you as black, so don't get too attached to your nuanced ideas about identity, because you're carrying the same baggage as me no matter how complex you try to make it." And Huey's a jerk about it, because Huey's character is to be abrasive and blunt and not to care very much about other people's feelings. I see it as, he thinks he's doing her a favor by forcing her to confront what he sees as an inescapable fact of living in a racist society.

He is being a jerk, but. . . there's a lot behind it that doesn't necessarily excuse him being a jerk, but does make it less arbitrary than it looks sometimes.

[(Anonymous)]

Actually, if I'm remembering correctly, he was telling her she had to choose if she was white or black in the previous strip. That's why she was saying she didn't want to choose. So he was just being an asshole.