Poll: Racist Humor
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Life isn't sunshine and rainbows? Noooooooo, my life is ruined now!SimuLord said:
OT: I love how people can get pissed off at racist jokes then go back to portraying the very same stereotypes the jokes are referring to. Doing that just adds fuel to the fire.
I don't mind them, except when it can get just ignorant and just not funny.
Also those freaking facebook groups, ><
Also those freaking facebook groups, ><
Love 'em. They're all great. I don't consider myself racist, I'm sure I have racist qualities now and again, but meh.
The thing that pisses me off is when people are overly PC and can't even take a joke told in good spirits.
The thing that pisses me off is when people are overly PC and can't even take a joke told in good spirits.
As long as the joke is funny and clearly isn't directly offensive but rather satirical then I have no problem with a little simple joke. After all as Yahtzee said a society that can make a joke about everyone and have everyone laugh is a truly tolerant society.
Well as Yahtzee put it:
"You know what? A society where anyone can make jokes about anyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only services to engender distance between social groups. Besides, gangsters don't need defending; they have guns for that!"
which I stand by entirely. I tell racist jokes about people not my race quite frequently. I let other people tell the white racist jokes and I laugh at them (assuming they are funny). The only reason I don't tell jokes that are racist against whites is because it just sounds white coming from a white guy.
"You know what? A society where anyone can make jokes about anyone else and everyone laughs is a truly tolerant society. Political correctness charged censorship only services to engender distance between social groups. Besides, gangsters don't need defending; they have guns for that!"
which I stand by entirely. I tell racist jokes about people not my race quite frequently. I let other people tell the white racist jokes and I laugh at them (assuming they are funny). The only reason I don't tell jokes that are racist against whites is because it just sounds white coming from a white guy.
If we can all take the piss out of each other, we'll all be equal. I find racial stereotypes silly, and that's why I find them amusing. My country has loads of stereotypes (Scotland) that I just laugh.
I like some racist jokes. Some.
It depends on each joke, really. If someone's like, "we should not be made fun of!", that person can piss off and get a sense of humour.
It depends on each joke, really. If someone's like, "we should not be made fun of!", that person can piss off and get a sense of humour.
I made a comment about this on the other recent racist joke thread, a quote from Trevor Griffiths' Comedians. The problem with most racist jokes is that they don't open up a subject people find hard to deal with, they trap it and confine it.
A good joke should make people aware of a subject that they find hard, and allow them to laugh at it, thus giving them a chance to examine their fear of the subject. Most racist jokes let people laugh at the subject of their fear, thus further victimising it and continuing to make it a subject of fear.
A good joke should make people aware of a subject that they find hard, and allow them to laugh at it, thus giving them a chance to examine their fear of the subject. Most racist jokes let people laugh at the subject of their fear, thus further victimising it and continuing to make it a subject of fear.
