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“Police officers, comedians, and white supremacists all frame their use of racist jokes as an attack against ‘political correctness.'” & “Racist humor facilitates bonding…among white officers, at the same time…they engage in the dehumanization of nonwhite [citizens]."

Racism Without Hatred? Racist Humor and the Myth of “Colorblindness”
Sociological Perspectives
Vol. 60 Issue 5, pp. 956–974,
2017
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