Unfortunately it requires you to be, well… fucked. Fucked hard and aware of it.
Actually something the guys at the ‘Bad Hasbara’ podcast have observed is the history of Jews in comedy, much of that humor resulting from sort of a self-deprecating humor style meant to disarm those who were doing harm to Jewish communities, and the total LACK of humor from Jewish Israelis, shown most clearly in their social media posts. Once the group (speaking broadly of course) went from oppressed to oppressor they lost something special that enabled them make fun of themselves and in doing so make fun of society and make fun of those doing the oppression. They still view themselves as oppressed (laughable, obviously, when the IOF can fly uncontested fighter jets anywhere in the surrounding states) but the humor doesn’t work when your people are the ones doing the ethnic based murdering and the genocide.
Probably poorly explained there, but the gist is people coping with a total lack of power witnessing the mass oppression, including murder, of people of their similar group whether it’s a deeply held ideological conviction or something like an ethnicity or religion develop dark and twisted (from the outside perspective) humor to express the inexpressible.
I believe it’s called “gallows humor”
Unfortunately it requires you to be, well… fucked. Fucked hard and aware of it.
Actually something the guys at the ‘Bad Hasbara’ podcast have observed is the history of Jews in comedy, much of that humor resulting from sort of a self-deprecating humor style meant to disarm those who were doing harm to Jewish communities, and the total LACK of humor from Jewish Israelis, shown most clearly in their social media posts. Once the group (speaking broadly of course) went from oppressed to oppressor they lost something special that enabled them make fun of themselves and in doing so make fun of society and make fun of those doing the oppression. They still view themselves as oppressed (laughable, obviously, when the IOF can fly uncontested fighter jets anywhere in the surrounding states) but the humor doesn’t work when your people are the ones doing the ethnic based murdering and the genocide.
Probably poorly explained there, but the gist is people coping with a total lack of power witnessing the mass oppression, including murder, of people of their similar group whether it’s a deeply held ideological conviction or something like an ethnicity or religion develop dark and twisted (from the outside perspective) humor to express the inexpressible.
Not to be too melodramatic, etc.
I believe it’s called “gallows humor”