clown joker
see pepe
see nihilism happy smiley face "nothing matters" = threat warning: you evil Un-Am scum (or just other tribe enemy) pose such a threat (to our having power) that we will commit genocide.
see belated dumb stupid retard
note neo-nazi militia mask/balaclava indistinguisable from SS death grin?
insane clown posse punk? rap?
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Days before he becomes president of the USA — and minutes after the release of a prosecutor’s bombshell report into the Jan. 6 election interference case — Donald Trumptook to Truth Socialearly Tuesday to attack a comedian.
“How bad is Seth Meyers on NBC?" the president-elect asked at 1:24 a.m.
It came just minutes after special counsel Jack Smith’s report revealed that he believed he had the evidence to convict Trump.
Trump was reacting to a 10-minute segment on Meyers show Monday in which he mocked infighting in the MAGA movement which has seen allies like Steve Bannon and Elon Musk go head to head.
“Trump is caught in the middle between the MAGA diehards and the rich oligarchs who helped him get elected,” Meyers said. “And he doesn’t even really know what the hell they’re talking about.”
Trump hit back that the comedian was a “moron” and that his network, NBC, was “run by a truly bad group of people.”
ALSO READ:Fox News has blood on its hands as Trump twists the knife
“Remember, they also run MSDNC,” he added.
“I got stuck watching Marble Mouth Meyers the other night, the first time in months, and every time I watch this moron I feel an obligation to say how dumb and untalented he is, merely a slot filler for the Scum that runs Comcast.
“These guys should be paying a lot of money for the right to give these “in kind” contributions to the Radical Left Democrat Party. These are not shows or entertainment, they are simply political hits, 100% of the time, to me and the Republican Party. Comcast should pay a BIG price for this!”
Watch the Seth Meyers video below or at this link.
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urban legend?
https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/10/joker-aurora-shooting-rumor
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The Joker Didn’t Inspire the Aurora Shooter, but the Rumor Won’t Go Away
James Holmes was not dressed as the Joker when he killed 12 people in a movie theater in 2012, but the potent rumor continues to provoke fear—and worries of copycats.
BY YOHANA DESTA
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Joaquin Phoenix as Arthur Fleck in Joker.]
The rumor began in the hours after James Holmes killed 12 people and injured 70 more during a 2012 screening of The Dark Knight Rises. Speaking at a press conference in Manhattan, then-New York police commissioner Ray Kelly said that Holmes had actually referred to himself as the Joker. “He had his hair painted red, he said he was ‘the Joker,’ obviously the ‘enemy’ of Batman,” Kelly said.
As the Joaquin Phoenix-starring Joker opens in theaters, talk of the tragedy has made the rounds again, repeated by critics concerned that the new Joker might inspire copycat violence, perhaps because Holmes had allegedly been motivated by the character seven years ago. There’s just one problem with that theory.
“It never happened,” said George Brauchler, the Colorado district attorney who prosecuted Holmes, citing Kelly as the source of the rumor. Brauchler and other Colorado officials have attempted to clarify for years that Holmes never referred to himself as the Joker. The story has persisted, Brauchler said, because it fits the narrative so cleanly. “Of course the crazy-hair-colored guy who shot up the Batman premiere thought he was the Joker, of course!” Brauchler added. “And yet it has no connection to reality.” (Kelly did not respond to requests for comment.)
The potency of the Holmes rumor, regardless of its basis in fact, has made the release of Joker fraught, particularly for Aurora survivors and relatives of the victims. Brauchler said the rumor has become part of the dark lore of the Aurora shooting. “I was in Texas a week or two ago teaching at their statewide conference for prosecutors and I asked, ‘How many people here heard that this guy thought he was the Joker?’ and about a third to half of the hands go up,” he recalled. “It’s four years [after the trial], and these are prosecutors!” It’s a reminder that even in the age of instant fact-checking, we still get hung up on false stories when they’re sticky enough. In a 2015 interview with the Denver Post, he said that his team did not push back on the rumor during the trial because it was focused on getting the death penalty for Holmes (he was ultimately given 12 life sentences, one for each person he killed, plus another 3,318 years). Pressing the issue on whether Holmes fashioned himself after a comic book villain didn’t seem entirely relevant.
However, there have been attempts to set the record straight about Holmes’s dyed orange-red hair, which some considered a potential sign of his Joker fandom (though the Joker‘s hair is dyed green). Dr. William Reid, the psychiatrist who interviewed Holmes for several hours during the trial and later published the book A Dark Night in Aurora, said the shooter had dyed his hair prior to the shooting, after being inspired by a friend who had blue hair.
“When I asked Holmes about him dying his hair red, he said, ‘Well, my friend dyed his blue, so I said I’d dye mine too and I just picked red,’” Reid said, noting that it was seemingly a random choice with no correlation to a comic book character. Reid also asked the murderer outright if he had been inspired by the Joker at all.
“He said that the first he heard of the Joker idea was [from] somebody in another cell,” he said. “He heard calling back and forth, ‘Hey, you’re the Joker,’ or something like that.”
Reid said that in his estimation, Holmes was not “in great mental condition,” and searches of his apartment revealed no particular affinity for any comic book character, save one Batman mask. According to Brauchler, he chose the screening of The Dark Knight Rises simply because it was popular. “He was just looking for a blockbuster, right?” Brauchler said. “Had this been Jurassic World, he’d have been there. Had it been Avengers: Endgame, he’d have been there.”
“He picked that movie simply because it was guaranteed to be full,” Reid said.
Still, those affected by the Aurora shooting are paying particular attention to the release of Joker, which depicts the character as a disturbed loner who turns to violence. The theater where the shooting occurred—then called Century 16, now the Century Aurora—will not show the film. And in a recently released letter to Warner Bros., family members of Aurora shooting victims urged the studio to take seriously its responsibility to keep viewers safe, as well as to “end political contributions to candidates who take money from the NRA and vote against gun reform.” In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, which originally obtained the letter, Sandy Phillips, whose 24-year-old daughter, Jessica Ghawi, was killed by Holmes, called Joker “a slap in the face.”
“My worry is that one person who may be out there—and who knows if it is just one—who is on the edge, who is wanting to be a mass shooter, may be encouraged by this movie. And that terrifies me,” she said.
This, Brauchler noted, is a genuine concern because there are copycat killers who could attempt to emulate Holmes, “whether they have the right facts or the wrong facts.” He continued, “Perception is reality. It doesn’t matter whether he really did it because of the Joker when you and I know he didn’t, it’s how people perceive it.”
“I don’t think it’ll ever go away because it’s just too easy,” he said of the Joker connection. “It’s almost like people want it to be true.”
aha
what is the back origin story? he was bullied, got revenge, failed by gubmint mental health system? his original enemy was preppy guy?
aha: like hulk irrational but sorta smart like stark? ingenious sadist?
// trump boost half-crazy: i am a powerful opponent b/c i will hyper-escalate w/o warning b/c i don't care about diplomacy/ rep/the rules
joker can't beat batman in strength or tech (intelligence?) so he uses what instead? the dark knight at darkest is no different? thus no such thing as moral / superiority?
see rhet god/devil terms
guns of course muy macho, kyle said he picked the AR15 b/c it looked cool = manly, warrior, lethal = power
note pedo-commie and bitch (co-opts black thug rap?]
pudgey white suburban so gets invite/summons on facebook to man up and go help the good guy cops who are besiged by black thugs [dylann r radicalized by blk on wht crime]
aha anti commie, fag and semite:
omfg parasite = cockroaches = exterminate vermin carry disease dirty
https://www.alternet.org/2021/11/rittenhouse-2655770737/
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Rittenhouse verdict championed on right-wing social media as green light for killing protesters
[Charlottesville "Unite the Right" Rally. Far-right Oath Keepers patrol Emancipation Park. Credit: Anthony Crider]
David Neiwertand Daily Kos November 21, 2021
The exultation on right-wing social media following Kyle Rittenhouse's acquittal has been sickeningly predictable: Mainstream conservatives loudly valorize Rittenhouse as a "hero," while more extremist voices, applying the same logic, demand that more Americans follow his footsteps—urging the likeminded to take to the street now to begin using guns to "be like Kyle." They have even appropriated his name for their future plans, voiced in numerous celebratory threads: Any leftist protester shot by a right-wing "patriot" henceforth will have been "Rittenhoused."
As we forecasted, the acquittal is now a beacon-like green light granting permission to violent right-wing extremists to openly wage the kind of "civil war" against "the left"—which ranges from liberal Democrats like Joe Biden to the "antifa" bogeyman they have concocted—that they have been fantasizing about for the past decade. In the words of Charlie Kirk's interlocutor, it's the signal that now they "get to use the guns."
The bloodlust has been palpable. Online trolls celebrated that "it's Open Season on pedo-commies" and boasted that the verdict means "there's nothing you can do about it." A neo-Nazi channel on Twitter urged readers to "let this win fuel your rage." A fan of pseudo-journalist Andy Ngo commented in a retweet: "Every one of these anarchist criminal thugs should be shot in the street like the worthless dogs they are."
Far-right maven Ann Coulter posted a meme showing a gantlet of [marvel nazi nerd wet dr] comic-book superheroes bowing to Rittenhouse. On Facebook, Ben Shapiro framed any future violence as being left-wing: "The Left accepting the verdict in a peaceable manner remains the sizable elephant in the room."
The white-nationalist site VDare also extolled Rittenhouse's heroism:
This much is true: Kyle Rittenhouse is the hero we've been waiting for throughout the turbulent summer of 2020, where a Black Lives Matter/Antifa/Bolshevik revolution has our country on the brink of total chaos.
[Coulter-RittenhouseMeme.jpeg]
Matt Walsh of the Daily Wire blamed the media for there even having been a trial:
The verdict is right and just but Kyle Rittenhouse never should have been on trial at all. Now themedia will go to work, like the demonsthey are, to ensure that Kenosha burns because they did not get their blood sacrifice.
Walsh then added:
I hope Rittenhouse bankrupts all of you dirtbags in media who smeared him as a white supremacist. [sue for libel based on verdict? // charlottesville ~ KKK case finished ] I hope he ruins your life. I want you to suffer. It's what you deserve. It's justice.
Idaho legislator Tammy Nichols, a Republican, posted a meme featuring the Gadsden-flag "Don't Tread On Me" design, but with a graphic of Rittenhouse firing from a seated position as he did in Kenosha.
The Gun Owners of America (GOA)—a gun-rights extremist group headed by far-right militia figure Larry Pratt—joined in the celebration by announcing it was giving Rittenhouse a new gun.
Alert: GOA will be awarding Kyle Rittenhouse with an AR-15 for his defense of gun rights in America. Join us in saying THANK YOU to Kyle Rittenhouse for being awarrior for gun rights and self defense rights across the country!
Other "Patriot" Movement extremists saw the verdict as vindication for vigilantism and militia organizing. The "Washougal Moms," a militia-friendly group from eastern Washington state, opined:
Today the jury and legal system has reaffirmed our rights as citizens. The second amendmentin all aspects, to form a well regulated militia, the right to bear arms in self defense, and against enemiesboth foreign and domestic!
Kurt Schlichter, the right-wing troll with over 380,000 followers, taunted MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, who had expressed concern about the double racial standard that the verdict reflects, on Twitter.
Your pain delights me. Kyle Rittenhouse killed two leftistcatspawsand bisected the bicep of another and there's nothing you can do about it.
A white-nationalist Twitter account called "Based Teutonic" celebrated the verdict by posting a fantasy that Rittenhouse would now embark on an action-hero-like mission—with the help of Judge Bruce Schroeder, who oversaw the trial in markedly biased fashion.
About to exit court room
Judge yells from behind:
Rittenhouse turns around
You forgot this
Tosses him his AR15
Credits roll, Eye of the Tiger plays
"Based Teutonic" wasn't alone in celebrating Schroeder's role in the verdict. On Telegram, a commenter in a Proud Boys channel observed:
Kyle's case shows how important is to have your guys in power on a local level. One vaguely conservative boomer judge made all of the difference in a monumental trial.
Other Proud Boys were more focused on their long-anticipated civil war. "There's still a chance for this country," wrote one. Another wrote: "The left wont stop until their bodies get stacked up like cord wood."
The Institute for Research and Education on Human Rights monitored a number of far-right chat forums (particularly Telegram) following the verdict, and found an outpouring of extremist bile, much of it anticipating the ability to inflict lethal violence on "leftists," as well as Black "parasites" and, of course, Jewish people. A user called The Western Chauvinist commented: "The parasites are planning multiple 'protests' across the United States."
One user calling himself "Proud Boy To Fascist Pipeline" replied to one of these comments mocking Black leaders protesting the verdict as "parasites": "Your 17 year olds are already armed and terrorizing our neighborhoods, n----er."
Fittingly, Charlie Kirk fans—following the example of his Idaho audience member—were focused on the violence: "Arm up and tell them f**cking bring it!" one replied to predictions of leftist protests after the verdict. "Shoot these phukers," commented another.
Nick Fuentes' "Groypers" were also unbridled in their anticipation of gunning down their opponents. "The most American thing you can do is Killing Commies," opined one on the white-nationalist forum Gab.
Another Gab user exulted with a meme showing Joaquin Phoenix as The Joker, dancing: "When you find out it's officially Open Season on pedo-commies." Mocking "wannabe street thugs upset with the verdict," another Gab user replied, "you're gonna get Rittenhouse'd. Bitch."
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"Getting Rittenhoused" became a popular way of threatening leftists. After Ngo posted a handful of tweets from leftists angry about the verdict, hundreds of his fans piled on, making threats of violence against them. "Someone will Rittenhouse them too," one responded. Another replied: "I came here to say that!"
Antisemitism also was a common theme. Right-wing troll Keith Woods, who has 23,500 followers on Twitter, declared after the verdict: "Huge L for the Jews." His followers piled on; one responded with a GIF meme of Gollum and the text, "Curse you goyim." Another replied, "hopefully they take an L in Charlottsville trial too. WHITE BOY WINTER!"
White nationalist Eric Striker was more explicitly antisemitic, as well as strategic, in his commentary:
Beating the Jews to the narrative as incidents unfold is more important than anything that happens in court.
Once you frame a story with the facts (and the facts have to be 100% accurate) and disseminate it with an effective propaganda network, Jews will struggle to challenge it once it's cemented.
Notorious white nationalist and antisemite Mike "Enoch" Peinovich put out a statement through his National Justice Party: "This victory for Kyle Rittenhouse over the cosmopolitan elite forces that plague the nation isn't only a victory for the young man himself, it's a victory for justice and for all White people who take a stand," Peinovich said.
On Telegram, a white nationalist commented: "The victory of Kyle Rittenhouse over thejewish forces that plague the nation isn't just a victory for the man himself, it's a victory for justice, and for the masses of disenfranchised White people which populate the globe.
The neo-Nazi group White Lives Matter had this advice for its white-supremacist followers:
Don't let this one victory lull you back to sleep. That's what they want. They know small "victories" can placate the angry masses more than anything else. Instead let this win fuel your rage.Never forget the simple fact that this clear-cut self-defense should never have gone to trial in the first place. Muslim, Hispanic, and African invaders have raped millions of our women, WHITE women.Their time ofterrorizing our People with 0 consequences is coming to an end. The Rittenhouse verdict is a single tick in the scoreboard on our side. Our enemy doesn't have a scoreboard big enough for their victories. Fight harder, stronger, fiercer, and with the same remorse they have shown us. None. Get going, White man.
"This might be interpreted across the far right as a type of permission slip to do this kind of thing or to seek out altercations in this way, believing that there is a potential that they won't face serious consequences for it," Jared Holt of the Digital Forensic Research Lab at the Atlantic Council told NPR. "I worry that that might end up being interpreted by some people as a proof of concept of this idea that you can actually go out and seek a 'self-defense situation,' and you'll be cheered as a hero for it."
heath ledger actor batman died of OD? nihilism?
does not care for $, just burn it all down?
obama portrayed as joker, just saw AOC 619
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Black%20Pill
The phrase “clown world” and accompanying emojis unify far-right social media users in their exasperation over an imagined state of collapse in the Western hemisphere that they largely blame on immigrants and minority groups. The force driving “Honkler” across the far-right is the same bleak worldview that led white nationalists to embrace Democratic presidential candidate Andrew Yang. In their minds, if there is nothing that they can do to stop the supposed “great replacement” of white people in their “homelands” and no politicians who care enough about their cause to implement real policies that favor their agenda, they may as well accept the outcome and wrench whatever they can out of the system, like Yang’s promise of $1,000 per month universal basic income. This mentality is often referred to as “black pilling.”
see 4 chan, pepe, clown
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A catastrophic prophecy or spiritless prophesying for the future that is not necessarily grounded in reality. A red pill gone hopelessly bleak.
John had swallowed too many red pills over the last few sleepless nights and tried to black pill me that the race war would be happening any day now.
Because of a bad breakup, Steven black pilled himself into believing that all women would cheat on him no matter what. A month later, he unexpectedly swallowed a white pill when he came and his new girlfriend kept sucking, proving the existence of a divine spirit and a glorious future for mankind.
#black pill#black-pilled#black pilled
ARTHUR GIVES UP HOPE THUS // BLACK PILL?
https://www.alternet.org/2019/10/joker-a-harsh-indictment-of-neoliberalism-and-gangster-capitalism/
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Neoliberalism as a form of gangster capitalism sells the lie that destroying the Commons, the social safety net, social democracy and a sense of shared human obligation — and cutting taxes on the rich — will somehow create economic growth, prosperity and “freedom” for all people. After several decades of failed experiments, such economic and social policies have been disproved. In reality, neoliberalism is “socialism” and “welfare” for the richest individuals and largest corporations — and “survival of the fittest” for everyone else.
To maintain control of a public that is often despondent, suffering, at times near rebellion but also cowed by learned helplessness – neoliberal policymakers and other elites use the punitive and punishing power of the state to quell dissent.
Precarious economic circumstances also help to suppress resistance and even the act of imagining alternative, more democratic political possibilities and outcomes. Mass media, schools, and other agents of political socialization have convinced many Americans (and other people around the world) that consumerism, capitalism and democracy are the same thing. People who live in societies dominated by neoliberalism and gangster capitalism are told that they are ultimately responsible for their own suffering and lack of success, even as income and wealth inequality soar, life chances are truncated, and meritocracy is exposed as a sham.
But perhaps the greatest power of neoliberalism and gangster capitalism is the control they assert over people’s emotional lives. Neoliberal elites must create emotionally self-regulating subjects if “the system” is to remain stable and not collapse into chaos. Achieving that goal is advanced through various means, including “narco-capitalism” and the dopamine hits delivered by the internet and social media, whose success is predicated on loneliness and social atomization. The technology of “mindfulness” also does the work of enforcing neoliberalism’s need for emotionally self-regulating subjects.
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... Phoenix’s Joker character rejects that order of things. Indeed, he rejects the entire regime of training and discipline demanded by neoliberalism.
In their new book “Manufacturing Happy Citizens,” Edgar Cabanas and Eve Illouz explain the role of “happiness scientists” in enforcing neoliberalism’s power over its subjects:
Questioning the existing state of affairs, defamiliarizing the familiar, and inquiring in the processes, meanings and practices that shape our identities and everyday behaviour are fundamental endeavours of social critical thinking…."
That happiness scientists have often been belligerent towards critical social thinking is no secret, calling it negative, deceptive, and even dishonest. These scientists believe that we should get rid of this kind of negativity because it only fuels pointless and fruitless claims for social and political change.
The character of the Joker is forced into being by neoliberalism’s assault on public services and its indifference to real human needs — and also by the way neoliberalism and gangster capitalism create a feeling of social isolation and loneliness among people around the world.
In the film, Arthur Fleck is denied mental health care by public hospitals and other programs, which are being “downsized” or terminated. Fleck is economically insecure. He is not paid a living wage for his work as a clown. He has no health insurance or other benefits. His mother is in dire need of medical assistance.
The city of Gotham is suffering through a sanitation workers strike, events that were relatively common in the 1970s and ’80s, as sanitation and other public workers were engaged in collective action to fight for a living wage and safe working conditions. Neoliberalism, of course, views unions and collective action as wasteful and unproductive.
The incidents of emotional stress and physical assault that turn Arthur Fleck into the Joker take place on dilapidated public transit, on dirty streets and in under-resourced public hospitals and mental health care facilities. There are few if any visible police officers, except those who victimize and abuse the public. Neoliberalism’s gutting of public services and neglect of public spaces creates the literal “spaces of encounter” where Arthur is traumatically forced along his journey of transformation.
Neoliberalism even attempts to regulate happiness itself. Arthur genuinely wants to make people happy, internalizing his mother’s wish that he should “smile and put on a happy face.” But Arthur is not allowed that form of self-actualization.This horrible state of frustration, disappointment and futility is described by cultural theorist Lauren Berlant as a state of “cruel optimism”.
Here is Berlant in an interview from The Point:
One of the things that excites me about comedy is the comic disturbance of the shared object. Like, you think you know what it is but you don’t, and you get to delight in that. It allows in the room a multiplicity of kinds of possible effects and affects, and that flooding itself is funny. …"
I’m also interested in thinking about politics as comedic, by which I don’t mean delightful or funny in the easy Schadenfreude sense. I’m interested in the comedic dictum, which is that disturbance doesn’t kill you, it forces you to live on. The thing about trauma, as I always say to my [Literature of] Trauma students, is that it doesn’t kill you and you have to live with it. And that’s the thing about comedy, too. The comedy is that you get up again after you fall off the cliff, and have to keep moving. You have to live with the brokenness, and you have to live with surprise, and you have to live with contingency. And you have to live with the pleasure of not knowing, if you can bear it. But how you have to live with it is another story.
Comedy is a lot about the question of whether you can bear it, in a way that tragedy isn’t. Because in tragedy the world can’t bear you.
Later in that interview, Berlant argues that “America tries to be a comedic force, in the sense that it tries to organize a kind of optimism about living politically. About a greatness, about a transcendence, about the practical or concrete utopia.” Our “constant disappointment” about that failure, she concludes, “is a lot like the constant repetition in a comic sequence of a slapstick event. Except the violence of the disappointment is not funny! And it has really bad, painful effects on people’s lives.”
Arthur Fleck, after his transformation into the Joker, speaks to this futility when he tells his mother, while smothering her to death, “I used to think my life was a tragedy. But now I realize, it’s a comedy.”
For decades, neoliberal elites and other policy makers have tried to create “healthy” self-regulating subjects. They have failed. The Joker is the representation of that outcome — and also the story of Arthur Fleck’s “liberation” as a villain.
In many ways, neoliberalism and gangster capitalism are making the individuals and groups who suffer under their rule literally mad.
Because the color line intersects all areas of American life, racism and racial animus were and continue to be used as a tool for creating the neoliberal nightmare. Reagan and other conservatives used the image of the black “welfare queen” to convince the American public that cutting food stamps, welfare and other public assistance for the neediest Americans was good public policy.
Stereotypes of “lazy” black people who could only get jobs with the federal government continues to prime white hostility to the very idea of government itself and the safety net. This reaches back to racist associations from the Civil War and Reconstruction, where “big government” was imagined as protecting black people by “stealing” from “self-reliant” and “disciplined” white Americans.
In America, black women have been special targets of the neoliberal war on democracy and the public sphere, because they are strongly associated with government jobs and the bureaucracy. Black Americans, in the White American imagination, are still seen as anti-citizens who are not “self-reliant” or “productive.” [47% MAKERS VS TAKERS]
The Joker, however, is “race neutral” and “colorblind” (in his own twisted way). The Joker’s mob of protesters is interracial. Black people seem omnipresent, even hyper-visible in the Joker’s world. Why? This is the neoliberal reality of Gotham and the social and political moment it represents.
Arthur’s social worker is a black woman. On the bus, he tries to entertain a black child by doing his clown routine. The child’s mother tells Fleck to leave her child alone. The medical clerk (Brian Tyree Henry) who has Fleck’s mother’s medical records is a black man. Black and Latino street ruffians assault Arthur, stealing his placard, robbing him and leaving him laid out in an alley. The psychiatrist questioning the Joker at the end of the film — whom he apparently kills — is a black woman.
Yet the Joker never summons racial invective or other signs that he is angry that black people have caused him harm. His real enemies are the rich, white authority figures like Thomas Wayne who rule over Gotham and the world.
Phillips blunts the accusation that the Joker is somehow “racist” through the character of Arthur’s neighbor Sophie played by Zazie Beetz. He imagines them having a whirlwind romance, but he is actually stalking and terrorizing Sophie:
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