this post was submitted on 07 Mar 2025
315 points (97.6% liked)
Political Memes
6684 readers
2690 users here now
Welcome to politcal memes!
These are our rules:
Be civil
Jokes are okay, but don’t intentionally harass or disturb any member of our community. Sexism, racism and bigotry are not allowed. Good faith argumentation only. No posts discouraging people to vote or shaming people for voting.
No misinformation
Don’t post any intentional misinformation. When asked by mods, provide sources for any claims you make.
Posts should be memes
Random pictures do not qualify as memes. Relevance to politics is required.
No bots, spam or self-promotion
Follow instance rules, ask for your bot to be allowed on this community.
founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
view the rest of the comments
It's man but WOMAN LOL
Yeah when I see these, I just imagine the corollary. Imagine someone photoshopped Trump into blackface, or just photoshopped to look black. And then they post it and try to defend it saying, "well Trump hates black people, so we're making fun of him!" While I get that, the joke would still be, "it's funny because he's black." Here, the punchline is, "hah, Vance is trans!"
Conservatives like to say that we can't have humor anymore, that there are some groups you just can't make fun of. But that simply isn't true. You can tell jokes involving trans people. The jokes just shouldn't be lazy, with the punchline being, "ha, this person is trans!" Trans humor can be done, and done well. Hell, trans people have a better perspective than almost anyone on the complex absurdities society's relations with gender. There's a lot of humor to be found there, if you simply look beyond lazy tropes of, "hah, get it, she was trans!"