Analyzing Carlos's Arguments About Racial And Social Issues

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1. Carlos defines himself as a person who says what he thinks and doesn't cares about hurting the feelings because he believes that it's more stupid to let people continue on their stupid works.

2. Carlos was lacked on only one credit to graduate but decided to leave college and engage in comedy.

3. Carlos makes jokes about whites, blacks, minorities and above all latinos in their language. And some of their themes are preferred to racial issues, politics, religion and social issues. 4. The problem with Carlos's jokes are that it making people consider that his style exceeds the limits of what is "politically right" and are too provocative and perpetuating stereotypes.

5. They think that Carlos's works are an example of free expression where Latinos are no longer a minority that is the victim of the jokes of other people, but a community that feels established and able to laugh at themselves.
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It's legal to make jokes about racial and social issues because they are allowed in the United States laws. With jokes, some of the jokes are meant to be funny while the others are specifically portraying political events or issues without going against the into consequences.

2. I think that in a comedy show, there should be a little to no bad words because sometimes those bad words make the whole comedy show to be serious instead of funny because some bad words can easily make people become angry.

3. The Latino community feels established when those with higher education help those who are on the lower end of education to learn and basically give them a chance to gain knowledge and be successful in

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