Is anyone who finds the "Sum Ting Wong" / "Wi Tu Lo" joke funny automatically a racist?

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80. I didn't find it funny, but I don't think it's inherently racist

to play off of cultural or racial differences/stereotypes. It's hard to do that well, but for example I find Blazing Saddles utterly hilarious and it's full of racial stereotypes.

But in this instance, where there's just been a major accident, with lots of injuries and multiple deaths, whoever started this, is at best completely tone deaf. I get the black humor thing, but that's usually best left not broadcast on television.

I think there's a difference between going up to a random individual person of an ethnic group and making a comment and making it among friends. For example, last year for a friend's birthday, I got her a book titled "How to be Black" by Baratunde Thurston which she loved. And I even wrapped it in black and white paper because her mom is white and her dad is black. She found it hilarious, but I know other black people I wouldn't give that gift to because it's not their style of humor.