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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Cuthbert

I don't see why a joke would not be OK.

It's 'too far' when it isn't a joke.

Frownland

Case by case but the okayness will always be in your favour if you're actually funny and not just attempting to be edgy.

Whether it actually reflects racism is a case within cases by cases within cases type of thing.

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Trollheart

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?

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Paddy is hitch-hiking home, big car pulls up, Merc. Paddy gets in, all wonder. The driver realises he's got a thick gombeen Irishman here and decides to have some fun when Paddy asks about the Mercedes logo on the front. "What's that for?" he asks. Driver says "That, my friend, is a sight. Ye see this guy on the bike here in front? Well now, I just line up the sight, gun the accelerator and ..."
And he roars up to the frightened cyclist, but at the last moment swerves away, laughing. Turning back, he says to Paddy "Close one there! Nearly had him!"
Paddy leans back nonchalantly in the back seat, a grin on his face.
"Sure, no problem boy!" he beams. "Sure didn't I get him with the back door as we went by?"

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riseagainstrocks

Much like racism itself, one needs to consider the power dynamic.

If the group being made fun of has social, economic, and political power than I would say it's generally OK.

Man like Monkey's joke is pretty great. Western Europeans (well, not the Irish) have been running the world for the last 300 years or so, so poking fun at their foibles won't earn you much SJW backlash.

For the record, I'm all for anyone telling any joke they want. I might not say it but I'll probably laugh if it's clever or subversively shocking (Kramer's shouting of the n-word failed on both counts, hence his rightful excommunication from the entertainment industry). It's pretty tough to tell a good 'race-based' joke imo.

I prefer terrible puns.

What's Harry Potter's favorite way to get down a hill?



Walking.









Jk, rolling.

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