Riso e resistência: a importância da seriedade do humor no século XXI.

Abstract

This work aims to analyze and encourage reflections on how prejudiced humor allows and reinforces the spread of stereotypes and stigmas in everyday life, making oppressed groups even more inferior. Therefore, it is necessary to seek the seriousness of humor as a way of confronting comic offenses and humiliations, exposing arguments about limits and responsibilities towards the social world. Furthermore, relating the virtual world, especially social networks, with my own daily life, I carried out research in these two fields to better understand the panorama between the controversies involving renowned comedians and the anonymous humor of everyday life. In contrast to prejudiced humor, another path taken in this study is in relation to humor as a form of protest, a subversive humor that contributes to the fight against recreational oppression, which values a critical nature. With a mainly anti-racist purpose, there is an effort to fight for the right to be respected, for the right to laugh without being humiliated, exposing and criticizing the humor that despises minorities, but reinforcing its other questioning and provocative side to face prejudices and people in privileged positions.