text: Who exactly are you getting beaten up by?   Read a book on white privilege and really try to absorb it.  Until you are in the minority, and you are constantly judged, stereotyped, and presumed to fit a list of expected characteristics and behaviors, you dare not say such a thing.  It's mind-blowing, and I promise you would never say something like this, even in jest.  In so doing, you whimsically belittle every person who has ever actually been the victim of discrimination.  I had a colleague once who said, "I'm not prejudice, I hate all people."  He was a straight, white, Christian male living in suburban Chicago.  He used to think that was so funny, but no one else in the office thought it was funny.  When you are in the majority, you can make jokes about discrimination, you can pretend or even actually not 'get it', you can walk the tightrope between acting and not acting on your inherent biases toward others.  When you are on the other end of it, you would not nor joke about it.