When rape becomes a punchline 

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There is a particular kind of joke that doesn’t just offend — it reveals. Last week at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York, American actor Elon Gold and influencer Lizzy Savetsky offered one such moment of revelation. Promoting a film made in Israel, Gold quipped on the red carpet that he had been “raped by two Israeli dogs” while filming there. Savetsky’s response: “I thought they only raped Palestinians.” Gold’s rejoinder: “No, I got also a dog.”

Cue the laughter, somewhere.

Tribeca has since condemned the remarks as “offensive and unacceptable.” But the film screened anyway.

There is a fundamental difference between laughing at your own pain and laughing at someone else’s. The punchline was borrowed directly from documented reality. The humor required the audience to know this was happening. And to find it funny regardless. She knows what deserves dignity. She chose who gets it. - Muna Khan

There is a fundamental difference between laughing at your own pain and laughing at someone else’s. The punchline was borrowed directly from documented reality. The humor required the audience to know this was happening. And to........

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