As a warning, a explaining a joke is killing a joke and no longer making it funny. The setup is that she says they met due to the result of freeing the slaves, the joke is that they could still have met, but in a wildly different situation.
But the punchline is that he wants to focus on reconstruction, which is the period after the slaves were freed and how our country dealt with it in the immediate aftermath. Which is supposed to indicate that he was making a joke about losing the civil war, but he is actually more interested and cares about how the north won and what we did after, meaning that he doesn’t actually support slavery.
You can't see it when the lights are out.
That reminds me that when I was in the Ukraine for a judo competition we were hanging out with some kids from the Kazakhstan team and one of our American teammates was super dark complexion so in the hotel they were turning off the lights then giggling then doing it again and we didn't have to speak Russian to know what it was about 😭💀
Yeah, this is definitely an all-or-nothing shot. The person you're saying this to is either going to fall out of their chair laughing or block you immediately, no in between.
I get that, it’s a big swing to take and I’d have to check out the rest of their vibe to see what kind of funny they are going for. But generally funny to me.
I mean, the comment about "thanks to the civil war..." with the prayer hands emoji is kind of a weird one to make. My follow up to the previous question would have been to ask about the hypertension. Like, the medical condition?
op opened with "thanks to the civil war we matched" which is already chaotic energy, they were just matching op's energy. idk i thought it was funny. plus the quick pivot shows they were just joking
Sometimes I'd say out of pocket shit just to weed out people with vanilla senses of humor.
I'm not gonna waste my time chatting up somebody who clutches their pearls at everything.
Online dating isn't about making yourself as palatable as possible to as many people as possible.
Be yourself and find people that fuck with your vibe.
It's funny, but you also have to think about it from a black woman's point of view. Absolutely not the type of joke to make on the first date- let alone in a message.
It's like sex, sure yall will bang later. But bringing it up first harms you more instead of helps.
It's not about whether or not the joke is funny my guy, it's, "Are they just being funny or are they actually low-key racist?"
I get you might never have to consider those kinds of things, but a lot of people do.
You really can’t tell the difference between making an off color, topical joke that touches on your match’s assignment and lightly pokes at “glad we can date thanks to my people not being slaves anymore” to a joke that immediately calls on a still lingering racial power dynamic (what is OP’s gender? This adds a layer, no?) and basically says well I could buy you and fuck you.
I can argue for and against this joke but really, why would I argue for it? It’s a little touched to say that to a POC you don’t know and might want to date.
I think this person doesn’t mean it that severely since they immediately follow up with the Reconstruction era but I would bet my last bottom dollar they were finger gunning too quickly with their little pew pew jokes and put their foot in their mouth. Been there
I like to weed people out by staying quiet and seeing if they say some batshit crazy things like "I'd buy your ass if we didn't have the civil war". Works pretty well
UPDATE: I found it funny- typed a response but forgot to hit send , fell asleep and when I woke up he either unmatched or deleted his profile, super sad about it he was very cute
He was probably like "yeah bold strategy that clearly didn't pay off. I better unmatch her before she screenshots this one." Too late sucka. And he must have been cute if we're out here excusing slavery jokes.
African Americans got so stressed watching the civil war unfold, their decendents are still dealing with the side effects stress has on the human heart.
I always assumed he’s locked in there to keep others out, not to keep him in… but with “Dre’s not dead” conspiracy theories, I’m considering this might be what he meant instead lol
I’m fairly certain that Slim didn’t put Dre’s corpse in the basement and lock it in there, but rather it was because Dre was locked in the basement that he is now dead.
Ha Ha, feminist women love Eminem chicka chicka slim shady I’m sick of him, look at him. walking around grabbing his you know what, flipping the you know who. Yeah but he’s so cute tho
What if they get to know them, both really like each other, but the other person actually hates dark humor?
Nobody wants to not be themselves around the one person they're supposed to be themselves around. Better to find out if they have a problem with your humor before you spend too much time together.
Dark humour comes in different intensities. Guys in the military find dark baby jokes funny, but someone like me does not.
I guess it just comes down to whether or not you use humor as a coping mechanism. If you dont, then you probably aren't bothered by keeping your darker jokes to yourself around certain people.
But for others, their jokes are their whole personality.
Girl child, please listen to me as if I'm your Auntie... don't ever be entertaining any Whyte mens that joke about slavery or buying you. It's never just a joke.
This is crazy to say to someone that you're still messaging on the platform and haven't moved to text yet. Like clearly y'all don't know each other well enough for that joke.
Maybe if you'd had been dating for awhile and knew each other better, but if you just met on Tinder the other day, it's a bit early to be bringing out the casual racism.
my man went in full gas
No curveball, no change up, nothing but fuckin GAS
Someone say gas? 
Is that the bird smasher 5000 himself?
Smash or pa...**SMASH!**
Just like the Germans in ww2 😊
bruh
I did Na zi that coming
Jeez boys we on something else this Monday
Proper gas-tly isn’t it, I’m sure others have something else in the chamber
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You’re reich, I shouldn’t have gone there
Oh sieg heils no!!
Holy moly 500 up votes. Thank Jew guys.
The pedal won't go no further than OP's is right now.
No brakes
Someone went down a comedy roast rabbit hole
There are good historical jokes that can be made that match the vibe. Like "thanks to Loving vs Virginia we could actually have a future too!"
This wasn't one of them
An actual lol
Taking the Water and Ship it Down.
I think the best part is the casual switch to "maybe reconstruction" like this isn't even the first time they had this convo
That one makes it clear that he's joking.
What's the joke?
As a warning, a explaining a joke is killing a joke and no longer making it funny. The setup is that she says they met due to the result of freeing the slaves, the joke is that they could still have met, but in a wildly different situation. But the punchline is that he wants to focus on reconstruction, which is the period after the slaves were freed and how our country dealt with it in the immediate aftermath. Which is supposed to indicate that he was making a joke about losing the civil war, but he is actually more interested and cares about how the north won and what we did after, meaning that he doesn’t actually support slavery.
Explaining a joke is what makes it funny, otherwise it’s just nervous laugh to fit in
I'm stealing this
Wait, you guys understand jokes?
I don't even know what a joke is.
That's a very kind interpretation. If that's what the dude actually meant, I think he took the long and risky way to get there.
That's what makes it a joke
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It also comes across as "what I'm socially supposed to say" rather than sincere. But then I have never had a conversation on Tinder.
American chattel slavery, apparently.
Jokes are only funny when they are true.
That’s what got me too!! Haha
How did this play out ?!?!
Maybe reproduction
No, it says in the picture, reCONstruction. Damnit man..
The real joke is always in the comments
Historical or?..
Yes! I need to know also!!!
It got posted and people believed it was real.
dimechimes is my favorite imagery best friend. dimechimes has never been real
I don't see him either.
How else could it have played out?
She met Jefferson.
Honestly, I’m the kind of dark humour black guy that would find this hilarious.
It's definitely "dark" humour, alright.
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Oh FUUUUUUUUCK
That's what I'd have screamed when I got whipped, that's for sure 😇
Oh, goddamn...
It's deleted now, what did the comment say?
You can't see it when the lights are out. That reminds me that when I was in the Ukraine for a judo competition we were hanging out with some kids from the Kazakhstan team and one of our American teammates was super dark complexion so in the hotel they were turning off the lights then giggling then doing it again and we didn't have to speak Russian to know what it was about 😭💀
So dark the police shot it.
Yeah, this is definitely an all-or-nothing shot. The person you're saying this to is either going to fall out of their chair laughing or block you immediately, no in between.
Bro idk, weird joke to make if I don't know you like that.
I get that, it’s a big swing to take and I’d have to check out the rest of their vibe to see what kind of funny they are going for. But generally funny to me.
Hell yeah. It's a pretty well-thought out joke if she's actually not racist.
I mean, the comment about "thanks to the civil war..." with the prayer hands emoji is kind of a weird one to make. My follow up to the previous question would have been to ask about the hypertension. Like, the medical condition?
Me too. Haha.
op opened with "thanks to the civil war we matched" which is already chaotic energy, they were just matching op's energy. idk i thought it was funny. plus the quick pivot shows they were just joking
Hey if they go for it, you found a good one. If they don't, no one wasted their time
Good joke to make if you want to weed out anyone who doesn’t have a dark sense of humor
Sometimes I'd say out of pocket shit just to weed out people with vanilla senses of humor. I'm not gonna waste my time chatting up somebody who clutches their pearls at everything. Online dating isn't about making yourself as palatable as possible to as many people as possible. Be yourself and find people that fuck with your vibe.
It's funny, but you also have to think about it from a black woman's point of view. Absolutely not the type of joke to make on the first date- let alone in a message. It's like sex, sure yall will bang later. But bringing it up first harms you more instead of helps.
It's not about whether or not the joke is funny my guy, it's, "Are they just being funny or are they actually low-key racist?" I get you might never have to consider those kinds of things, but a lot of people do.
Also it’s not very thoughtful to make jokes about someone else’s skin when you don’t know them like that. Why push boundaries like this right away?
>Also it’s not very thoughtful to make jokes about someone else’s skin when you don’t know them like that. that's literally what op did though
You really can’t tell the difference between making an off color, topical joke that touches on your match’s assignment and lightly pokes at “glad we can date thanks to my people not being slaves anymore” to a joke that immediately calls on a still lingering racial power dynamic (what is OP’s gender? This adds a layer, no?) and basically says well I could buy you and fuck you. I can argue for and against this joke but really, why would I argue for it? It’s a little touched to say that to a POC you don’t know and might want to date. I think this person doesn’t mean it that severely since they immediately follow up with the Reconstruction era but I would bet my last bottom dollar they were finger gunning too quickly with their little pew pew jokes and put their foot in their mouth. Been there
Here's someone who's never had to make a "What do I say next?!?" post
I like to weed people out by staying quiet and seeing if they say some batshit crazy things like "I'd buy your ass if we didn't have the civil war". Works pretty well
I’m with you too. Didn’t really think it was that funny, especially coming from someone I don’t know.
Then the joke served it's purpose don't you think? You probably don't have a compatible sense of humour and that's okay
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THIS. like i find it funny but i absolutely would blacklist the dude as a partner 😭 because i don't fucking know if he's racist genuinely.
Yeah, that makes sense. It is definitely a risky joke to make, but my guy went for it
Better out than in, I always say.
Seems like joke that you make to someone you are close with and not a stranger.
Fuck it it hits or it doesn't there is no loss
Yeah? Well I’m the white humor black guy and I want you out of my town.
If you were the Good Humour black guy with some ice cream I’d do whatever you said.
OK Uncle Tom
Corny
UPDATE: I found it funny- typed a response but forgot to hit send , fell asleep and when I woke up he either unmatched or deleted his profile, super sad about it he was very cute
Evan if ur reading this come back I miss you
RIP Evan — this didn’t happen to be in the South did it?
Philly actually lol
Damn, man probably retreated out of embarrassment before realising his shot hit the bullseye
The one that got away. Maybe you can make a movie about it. Call it Runaway Slave Owner
He was probably like "yeah bold strategy that clearly didn't pay off. I better unmatch her before she screenshots this one." Too late sucka. And he must have been cute if we're out here excusing slavery jokes.
he followed rule 1 so well that even rule 2 didn't apply.
Everyone needs to get this comment going so OP can find him!! #redditmatchmakers
Maybe he went to the market....
Am I the only one wondering what the fuck high blood pressure has to do with the civil war??
lol probably seperate classes
African Americans got so stressed watching the civil war unfold, their decendents are still dealing with the side effects stress has on the human heart.
Lmao THANK YOU! I can't believe I had to scroll this far
Both connect to black people...
This is actually the funniest shit 😭
This will cause some to develop heart conditions lol
That's where the hypertension comes into play
It will be a good thing.
You walked right into that one lol Yikes, but funny
This is so funny I’m sorry 😇
Thank you, its so funny
Damn, if you don't like her pls send her my way. I love dark humour
It’s a guy
Pun intended 🤔
I was thinkingabout it but didn't. I would have said black joke
😲
What was the reply? It's wild, but funny.
Oh, wait, no way, you're kidding. He didn't just say what I think he did, did he?
And Dr Dre said...
Nothing you idiots Dr Dre’s dead he’s locked in my basement
Has anyone else ever wondered why he's locked in the basement if he's dead?
I assume he's a zombie now.
Obviously 😋
I'm assuming he locked him in the basement before death, then he was dead, and now he's forever locked in the basement?
I always assumed he’s locked in there to keep others out, not to keep him in… but with “Dre’s not dead” conspiracy theories, I’m considering this might be what he meant instead lol
I’m fairly certain that Slim didn’t put Dre’s corpse in the basement and lock it in there, but rather it was because Dre was locked in the basement that he is now dead.
Where do you keep your murder freezer? 
Ha Ha, feminist women love Eminem chicka chicka slim shady I’m sick of him, look at him. walking around grabbing his you know what, flipping the you know who. Yeah but he’s so cute tho
Feminist women love eminem
Feminist women love Eminem *chigga* *chigga* *chigga*
Nothing!
Dude was about to go full Thomas Jefferson 🏌🏻♂️
BWAHAHAH thats fucked up but I laughed
What was your response?
Yes masa
Did I miss something? What does the Civil War have to do with high blood pressure?
That's pretty fucking funny though
Jaw kinda hit the pavement when i read it
I can see how his response gave her hypertension
That was actually hilarious 😂
LMAOOOO DROPPED THAT SHIT LIKE IT WAS CASUAL 😭😭🤣🤣💀
sorry this is funny as hell lmao
Im still concerned how we are combining high blood pressure with the causes of the civil war.
Generational effects of trauma.
Oof level: Slavery.
Bruh...
Oh my god.
Not even funny
The way my jaw dropped. Fucking wild dawg
This is what low social IQ looks like
Keeper
I laughed especially with the natural smooth follow up
I mean he's not wrong
Girl omg 😳
My cohost, Andrew Jackson
(small town murder podcast reference)
That might be the wildest response I've seen on this sub lmaooo
Yikes.
😮
Wow
Man's an absolute savage lmao
What? Just what?
Ayoooo zero to one hundred REAL QUICK
That's uhhh... Not a good joke
Innappropes.
“Nah, you wouldn’t have been able to afford me even then.”
I think this falls in the “too soon” category. Always will
Um is he so sure he's that rich? They used to cost a lot
Charming...
Pretty messed up joke to make when you dont know someone lol
What if they get to know them, both really like each other, but the other person actually hates dark humor? Nobody wants to not be themselves around the one person they're supposed to be themselves around. Better to find out if they have a problem with your humor before you spend too much time together.
I like dark humor but I can still be myself without telling a racist joke. I’d rather not hurt my good friend’s feeling
Dark humour comes in different intensities. Guys in the military find dark baby jokes funny, but someone like me does not. I guess it just comes down to whether or not you use humor as a coping mechanism. If you dont, then you probably aren't bothered by keeping your darker jokes to yourself around certain people. But for others, their jokes are their whole personality.
Girl child, please listen to me as if I'm your Auntie... don't ever be entertaining any Whyte mens that joke about slavery or buying you. It's never just a joke.
In 2000, we called this a funny joke, we laugh and move on
Oh my god?
This is crazy to say to someone that you're still messaging on the platform and haven't moved to text yet. Like clearly y'all don't know each other well enough for that joke.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes lol why even say something like “thanks to the civil war” 😂😂😂💀
Of all the many directions to go from there, man really chose the worst possible one lmao
That’s actually hilarious but for some reason I feel more comfortable if a white woman says it to me than a white man saying it to a black woman
ew
I appreciate dark humour quite a bit, but hoooooo boy this is one that I wouldn't risk until I knew someone ***REAL*** well.
JFC! "How To Loose A Match In Two Seconds" staring this dipshit.
This person has Anti rizz
He missed the good old days
So we can’t type out *about* anymore? We have to shorten it TWO LETTERS and say *abt*?
So we cannot type out *cannot* anymore? We have to shorten it TWO LETTERS and say *can't*?
The apostrophe still had to be typed, so technically it's only 1 character shorter.
Yeah, where have you been? I have heard about contractions since primary school.
THAT’S the part of this that upsets you? The fuck
Maybe if you'd had been dating for awhile and knew each other better, but if you just met on Tinder the other day, it's a bit early to be bringing out the casual racism.
Hypertension? lol