The funniest racism is the racism between minorities. It’s something you don’t see dramatized, but almost every minority I know who’s my age, they have these funny stories about their parents stereotyping other minorities.

Kaling points to a less-discussed social reality: prejudice does not only flow from a dominant group to marginalized groups, but can also circulate among minorities, often inherited through family attitudes and community narratives. By calling it “funny,” she is describing a comic premise—awkward, recognizable, and revealing—rather than endorsing the prejudice itself. The remark also critiques mainstream storytelling for flattening racism into a single binary, arguing that lived experience is messier and that comedy can expose these contradictions. Implicitly, she suggests that dramatizing such intra-minority stereotyping could broaden cultural conversations about bias, assimilation, and intergroup solidarity.