Sounded more hate filled to me and lacked any punchline at all. But then there are those who think a picture of watermelons on the White House lawn is funny too.
“Sounded more hate filled to me and lacked any punchline at all”
The punchline was “Who cares?” The post was funny because of its irony. Making Adam out to be a dirty queer was the misdirection, “Who cares?” was the unexpected zinger. Textbook stuff.
“But then there are those who think a picture of watermelons on the White House lawn is funny too.”
That deosn’t sound like a very clever construction, no. The thing is, everyone says comedians are supposed to be edgy and upset convention, but that’s bogus. They are there to please as much as shock the audience. Every joke, or every run of jokes, must resolve itself into a culturally/politically correct message.
Since racism is the biggest contemporary no-no (aside from smoking), jokes that portray racism as a good thing after all don’t work for a majority of us. In this case, you’ll notice that the conclusion is a perfectly politically-correct: stay out of Adam’s bedroom.
For what it’s worth, non-white people are allowed to play on racial stereotypes to the satisfaction of their audience without ending with a racism-is-bad message. But that’s because our culture allows them to be racist, so nevermind.
Or maybe it wasn’t a joke at all, and those were two disconected thoughts. But I doubt it, given the obviously inflammatory language and exclaimation point.