I make jokes about everyone and that's why I'm a man with no prejudice.

[Private Custard]

but making light of a cripple's inability to walk is very insensitive if they are upset by the fact that they can't.

Stephen Hawking won't get upset. It'd take him far too long to type it into his computer.

Anyway, like I said, if one person is fair game for no reason, everyone is.

Stephen Hawking doesn't type he can only move a few muscles in his face sensors detect these movements so that he can control his voice-computer thingie...anyway I'm normally the first to declare that equality means that black people aren't allowed to yell 'white boy' at me in the street and that cripples shouldn't call me a 'dirty, filthy biped' because my limbs still function; but there is a HUGE difference between lighthearted jokes with friends and just being nasty.
Case in point you said Haking wouldn't be upset, I'm sure if we go and tease him with witty puns for five minutes he'll cry...but you can still be the bigger man and walk away right?

I'm not saying I'll just needlessly walk up to someone and start taking the piss out of them. But I am bored of the double standards currently flooding this world. If a few sections of the populace get abused (or joked about) for something totally out of their control, then why shouldn't everyone?

Equality works in many ways!

 

[Edorf]

I can joke with just about anything as long as it is funny.

 

[Erja_Perttu]

See, if it makes people laugh, I think fine. It it's not funny, then it's not worth telling the joke. South Park humour, if you will.

 

[Gruchul]

So tell us a joke about middle-class white people.

There's a comedian called Miles Jupp who has the whole middle-class thing as a fairly central component of his routine.

 

[WestMountain]

"I ain't racist, I hate everything"

That sums you up pretty good OP

 

[LC Wynter]

Look, does it matter who you're making fun of? You're still jabbing an elbow into their ribs, be them black, disabled, half-jew, anorexic, gay, ginger, handicapped-

At the end of the day, you're still making fun of them. Should there be a divide?
If you're seriously going up to a guy and saying, "hey fucktard your faults suck so I'm going to ridicule you about them" and you actually mean it, then yeah; that's the problem. If the people you're ridiculing don't mind it because they know you're only joking, then I suppose that's alright. Just remember that not everyone shares your outlook.

 

[Something Amyss]

Well, Escapists, this is how I know I'm not a bigot.
For one, when I make a joke about handicapped people, then I later on top that with a joke about black gay handicapped people and some even wander why I do these absurd jokes about the worlds most sensitive things.
My reason? Is because I said, "fuck it, I'm going to start tearing everyone a new pair of balls" because I will allow everyone to make a joke about me, if it's about how flamboyant I am,weight or my comical expressions.
So why not eliminate the hate in this world with jokes and gain a bit of laughter as well?

That's a pretty silly rationale. I assume you're trying to be cute?

 

[Joep Smit]

handicapped people (physically/mentally)most of the time laugh as hard as anyone else about jokes about them. I know I have a growth disorder in my left leg, it looks really stupid ^^. Something to take in consideration tough is the fact that someone is born with his/her handicap or got it later in life, and still has problems with it.

Ps: black and cynnical jokes for the win, especially the ones about yourself

 

[Dogstile]

So you've watched the 50 cent: Blood on the Sand Zero Punctuation and have a messiah complex.

Good for you. *clap clap*

Psh, the LP of that game was much funnier than yahtzee.

OT: Yeah, I let anyone I meet know that I rip into anyone for anything and it doesn't bother me if its racist, sexist ect. If it bothers them they either get used to it or they leave. My humours not for everyone after all.

 

[M Rotter]

ive heard plenty of people comment that comedy is based on absurdity and i agree. Racial comedy that is cleverly playing off of common stereotypes and not, point to a black guy and say "haha he's black" is funny because the stereotype is absurd. If the person is using the stereotype as the absurd element in his joke then how is he racist? He's implying that of course these people are not actually like this. Obviously feeling out the correct situation is a good idea but racist joke where the racial stereotype is the absurd element does not indicate that the joker is racist.

 

[SimpleChimp]

I make jokes about every one, that is why i am a man with a lot of enemies.

First thing that came to mind for me when i saw the title (mainly because the title read "I make jokes about every one and that's why . . .)

The main reason is because not every one has the same sense of humor. Do you find the blue collar comedy tour funny? Do you find Kat Williams Funny? How about Lisa Lamponeli? Mitch Hedberg? Demetri Martin? Dane Cook? Mr. Bean? Slapstick? Fart Jokes? Dark Humor?

If you can't say yes to everything, then there are things you can't laugh at. So the things you do laugh at "making jokes about everything/every one" doesn't encompass everything and every one.

Hell i fall under the belief that if you can't laugh at it then it has beaten you. I laugh at the "amputation" i had, i lost a body part but i still laugh. I make jokes about family issues, i laugh about friends and exes, about the war i will have to fight in, the things i have lived through in life, but that is my way to keep myself swimming in a current of shit that wishes to drag us all down.

Some people don't do that. Some people don't believe humor is the answer. Some people don't laugh at awkward situations. Some people sense pity and not humor in irony, in slap stick, in dark comedy. Hell, there is a reason most dark comedies are indy.

Did you laugh when Brad Pitt was shot in the head during Burn After Reading? I did, i know people that didn't. But these are trivial.

Now imagine you tell a holocaust joke, a lot of us have and a lot of us will, i bet you and your friends laugh. Think a survivor would? Tell that joke around some one who takes offense and you made yourself an "enemy". Every joke (most of the good ones atleast) are built around the shock factor. They push the limit. Its why a man who isn't racist still laughs at a racist joke. Why we find humor in stereotypes, and when comedians point out some dirty little secret every one has. It shocks you and makes you laugh. Hell one of my favorite jokes to tell is funny because of the reaction people give, not from hearing the joke.

But when you make everything trivial by joking about it you can offend people, or mock what they truly believe in or stand against.

You may not have prejudice, but if some one perceives that you do then you are no better than a racist. Because in that person's eyes thats what you are. Go ahead tell a black joke to a stranger on the street. Just the joke. See what they see you as. You could be married to an african american. Tell that joke and you are seen as a racist, so in his eyes you are a racist. Perception is everything.

As my english teacher once said "(The Author's) Intention is lost on the reader."

 

[Queen Michael]

I'll laugh at anything. (Except Scary Movie 4, for some reason.)

 

[Anomynous 167]

Well, Escapists, this is how I know I'm not a bigot.
For one, when I make a joke about handicapped people, then I later on top that with a joke about black gay handicapped people and some even wander why I do these absurd jokes about the worlds most sensitive things.
My reason? Is because I said, "fuck it, I'm going to start tearing everyone a new pair of balls" because I will allow everyone to make a joke about me, if it's about how flamboyant I am,weight or my comical expressions.
So why not eliminate the hate in this world with jokes and gain a bit of laughter as well?

You are an idiot!

You think you are so cool and edgy for using the line "I MAKE FUN OF EVERY ONE", old news, brudder.
Also just because you mock each person equally does not mean you are a man of no predjdices.

To be predjudice is to assume that just because some one ambushes you in a dark alley, puts a knife to your throat and then asks for your wallet is trying to mug you.
To be predjuice is to NOT click on every link from every site that tell's you that you're the 1,000,000th visitor and if you put in your bank details you win a free plasma-tv.

For all we know: there is a bomb in your wallet and that man in the alley is trying to disarm it.
For all we know: The obviously hazardous link is genuine.

 

[SkellgrimOrDave]

Racism is not telling a joke about a black guy and stereotypes.

Racism is burning a cross, beating a guy in the street because of his ethnicity or saying that everyone who isn't the same colour as you is worthless because he's a different colour to you.

 

[Leviathan_]

Good for you OP!

Don't let others opinions influence your sense of humor and behavior. Absolute freedom of speech is important

 

[emeraldrafael]

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I dont know. IMO, everyone is the slightest bit racist just like how I beleive everyone is just the slightest bit homosexual. But again, thats my opinion. I just think and was always taught if you had a thought like that, you were a bigot.

 

[Terminal Blue]

In a perfect world, you would be able to make jokes about everyone. The problem is that any joke you could make about white middle class people couldn't possibly carry the same venom as a joke you made about black people or gays. That's just how it works.

Noone will ever seriously discriminate against you for being white and middle class (at worst, you might not be able to score drugs or get into good parties). If you're black or gay however, let me tell you get pretty fucking sick of the genuine venom people throw at you, and no privileged little fuckwit making light of that is ever going to come across as anything more than a ****.

So yeah, learn some respect or get the fuck out of society. If you're so insecure you need to try and crack shitty jokes about things you don't understand, then you're being a ****.

Besides, freedom of speech is bullshit.. If you tell a 6 year old you want to fuck her brains out you'll wind up in court. If you call a gang of black guys 'niggers' they might beat the shit out of you and with good reason. Everything you say has consequences, and no amount of bleating about your right to say it is going to stop those consequences from occurring. Stop whining about it and learn to check your mouth, and your privilege.

 

[TheRightToArmBears]

So you've watched the 50 cent: Blood on the Sand Zero Punctuation and have a messiah complex.

Good for you. *clap clap*

No my non-attractive friend. This has always been my opinion

Oh, well in that case:

You can make empty insults over the internet and you have a messiah complex.

Good for you. *clap clap*

I think you misunderstand.

Jokes =/= insults. I'm guessing he's not the kind who's going to go and laugh at a handicapped person. Besides, it's a very, very widely held viewpoint, the guys who do South Park are pretty vocal over the whole thing, for example. It's hardly special or unique and it's quite a speculation to assume he has messiah complex.