>...If Sarah Silverman has nuanced and
>complicated ideas about race and race relations in the United
>States, the challenge is to make jokes about it without just
>repeating the same tired stuff.

What if she's just doing it to be laughed at? What if there's no larger motivation than doing it so people laugh, some uncomfortably, at an idiot saying these horribly racist things?

Just because its shock value involving race people want to quantify and label it. The critics who praise her will often compare her, incorrectly and without merit, to Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor. Those of you like yourself who find it weak-minded and easy are just as incorrect, in my opinion, in assuming she's trying to achieve some kind of grandiose and lofty notions of breaking down social and cultural barriers through a set of ironic racist material. She's saying shit just to say shit to make people laugh and point at the dumb good-looking bitch on the stage with the foul mouth and dumb ideas.

EDITED TO SAY: I think you're criticizing her for things you're ascribing to her, not what is actually there.


Instead, she just saysthe
>same tired stuff, only this time she adds, "But I'm doing it
>ironically to expose its failures!"

When has she said this? Are you actually quoting her?