Constitutive Exclusion
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Only a Joke Can Save Us: A Theory of Comedy · Todd McGowan · p.177
Ideology and Equality > The Comedy of Social Exclusion
Theoretical move: Conservative comedy constitutes social wholeness through the exclusion of a racialized "excess" (the coon figure), thereby obscuring the social order's constitutive incompleteness and allowing spectators to believe in a substantial, crack-free society — making racist comedy not a symptom of ignorance but a structural ideological mechanism.
There is no wholeness without an exclusion, and the task of conservative comedy is one of constituting the wholeness by way of the exclusion.