Bard spotting on Bluesky 02 December 2024

Ryan Sproull (@ryansproull.bsky.social):

Hmm. A few months ago I did a standup gag about David Seymour performing oral s*x on a tobacco lobbyist. Was I leveraging ambient bigotry here? The joke was subservience, not "har har he's gay", but would there have been laughs without some background level of "it's funny to imply someone is gay"?

Ms. Penny Oaken (@skywitches.net):

In discussing how to spot The Promotion Of Hatred Based On Identity or Vulnerability, I come back again & again to a concept articulated by @vortexegg.regretfully.online — "leveraging the ambient bigotry".

If a speech act has to leverage ambient bigotry to deliver, it likely promotes that bigotry.

Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):

Possibly. The coding might be that regulatory capture (subservience of parliamentary government to corporate interests in abrogation of fidelity to rule of law / representative government oath) is a deviation from the proper order, & thus the s*x act might have been queercoded as deviant

Ryan Sproull (@ryansproull.bsky.social):

I hadn't even considered that.

A friend has also pointed out to me that plain ol' misogyny and homophobia explain my joke just fine without even needing ambient bigotry, so back to the drawing board.

Thanks for the post – new things to think about.