And if he had said it, I wouldn’t have said anything. But humor is a really complex thing, not always associated with pleasant feelings. It can be a social strategy and coping mechanism too.

Unfortunately this one is PDF only but it explores all the complex social themes in some depth from an ethnicity perspective: Dobai, A ; Hopkins, N. (2019) Humour is serious : Minority group members’ use of humour in their encounters with majority group members. European Journal of Social Psychology.

literally human Chihuahua

Dehumanisation, like infantilisation, is another problem for people in marginalised groups.