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Originally Posted by Pet_Sounds
Question for y'all on racist jokes: OK or not? How far is too far? I admit I find a lot of them hilarious.
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I guess it depends on how genuinely funny it is. "Paddy Englishman, Paddy Irishman, Paddy Scotchman" jokes usually had a point and you kind of couldn't take offence. Also, the other two who weren't the butt of the joke usually got ribbed too. I never considered them particularly racist, though of course they were. Jokes about black people are probably less nuanced, though I admit I haven't heard a joke I would call really racist in some time. As Frown says, case by case I guess. And it also depends on whether or not it's your race being joked about.
The important question I would ask about jokes seen as racist is: are they used just to
be racist or are they used to make a funny (depending on your standpoint of course) point? I mean, nobody ever wants to hear from Bernard Manning again, do they?
