Poll: Do you find racism or sexism funny?

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awsome117

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Ian Caronia said:
Just shaddap and make me a san-

kaveradeo said:
Humor for humor's sake is humorous, now make me a sandwich.
MMMMOTHER FU-

Well, whatever. My real answer would be: Carlos Mencia was a blight on the Hispanic community.
Short answer: No. Only tools who don't have the talent to make good jokes and think of real comedy resort to fucking racism and sexism on stage or on screen.

...F@cking ninjas...
You just haven't heard good racist/sexist jokes.
 

Cptn_Squishy

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I'd like to present two version of the same that I've heard:

A black guy walks into a bar with an armadillo under his arm. The bartender says 'Where did you get that filthy, disgusting animal?' The armadillo says 'Africa'.

A rabbi walks into a bar with a frog on his shoulder. The bartender says 'Where did you get that?' The frog says 'Brooklyn, there are HUNDREDS of em there!'

The first version was told to me by a co-worker and the 2nd by Robin Williams during the ending credits of 'The Aristocrats' and it worthy of a side-by-side comparison.

The first version doesn't work because it almost seems to STRAIN to be racist, as though the shock of it is enough. It's almost as though this version of the joke forgets its own context and uses the shock of insulting the black guy as the punchline rather than the shock of the animal answering, rather than the person.

As far as racism: everybody's got a little 'ism' in 'em. It's acceptable as long as it isn't consuming. It's like the difference between Michael Richards rant and Mel Gibson's. Michael Richards has not shown a clear pattern of hating black people, he just wanted (according to him) to hurt those two hecklers. This wasn't a hatred of black people, this was a particular attack on those two guys who interrupted his set and called him a 'kike'.

Then you have Mel Gibson, who has shown a clear pattern when he didn't know that there would be an audience (remember, even though Richards didn't know he was being recorded, he DID know that he was in front of a full audience of people).

To sum up, it's just another case of context vs content.
 

Therumancer

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dogstile said:
I'm intrigued. I got called racist yesterday for laughing at a racist joke. I also enjoy a good "sammich, get me one" joke every now and again and my female friends seem to have no problem with this.

I'm not racist and i'm definitely not sexist (Hell, some might say I like women a little /too/ much.) But I see nothing wrong with enjoying these jokes from time to time. Especially if you don't say them in spite or to anyone you know is going to take offence at them. But of course many people disagree.

So, lets keep this thread clean, no actual racism or sexism here please!

What are your thoughts on this?

Everyone needs to be able to laugh at themselves to an extent.

I think the problem with a lot of jokes in this genere is that there is a grain of truth in all of them which is why they are understandable and can make people laugh. That grain of truth being heavily exagerrated of course for the sake of being funny.

You get plenty of stand up jokes from people who are minorities that make fun of whatever minority they are a part of, this includes white people (the whole "Rednecks", "Blue Collar", or "Brainless Yuppies" subsets). Not to mention of course the fat jokes, political jokes, and just about anything else out there. The bottom line is that if it exists someone has exagerrated and made fun of it.

Truth is though some people can't take it, and you have to understand who your dealing with.

Typically when someone talks about busting on "minorities" as not being funny in a serious conversation, I tend to point towards "Seinfeld" which is perhaps the most successful sitcom of all time, which is pretty much busting non-stop on urban white yupppies (or want to be yuppies). The same could also be said for a lot of sitcoms where the people involved no matter their ethnicity are generally insane and mocked relentlessly for the show's very existance. This is to say nothing for "Married With Children" which for it's time pretty much went further than anything else before it in ranking on both the nuclear white family, AND just as directly other sitcoms. :p

So basically the point is everyone gets picked on when it comes to comedy and jokes, and there is a grain of truth somewhere in pretty much all of them which is why they are funny. If this kind of thing offends, then chances are you need to loosen up and stop taking yourself so seriously.
 

DazBurger

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Ye, I find em funny. But not really into racistic jokes.

I prefer joking about cultures and religions.

But Im danish... You know what we like to draw!
 

Mr. Gency

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Mucinex-D said:
Mr. Gency said:
A racist joke is only in bad taste when someone is offended.
It's not a good joke UNTIL someone is offended...
I'm sorry, but I can't intentionally try to look like an asshole (not trying to insult you). Not even on the internet (believe me, I tried).
 

AvsJoe

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The late great George Carlin theorized that all humour is derived from exaggeration, mean-spirited or otherwise. And we all know that racism and sexism and all the isms out there are derived from mean-spirited exaggerations. With such similarities, no wonder much of racist and sexist humour is or at least can be funny. So yes, I enjoy a well-told racist or sexist joke (though I still often feel guilty about liking them).
 

Kapol

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I think it depends on the context. For example, I went to middle-of-nowhere-and-full-of-rednecks High School, and they thought it was funny to 'pretend' to be racist. Now, you have to realize that we had 2 black kids in our entire high school, and there was no cultural diversity. So while they say they were 'pretending,' I know that it was more then that.

But I digress. The point is, if it's actually meant to be insulting to any gender or race, then it's not funny, as the reason behind it is hate and ignorance. If it is just a joke to pull on the absurdities of what some people think, then it can be funny. It really depends on if there is actual prejudice against a certain group behind it.
 

Citizen.Erased

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I find these kinds of jokes funny when I read them online, but I would never repeat them and I find them offensive when told to people whom it concerns. Joke about sandwiches with your guy friends, but tell it to my face and I will destroy you.
 

joshuaayt

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I despise discrimination...but jokes are fine. I only dislike such things if they are said with ill intent; things like your sammich joke clearly aren't
I don't believe there is a 'too far' for these jokes, as far as content goes- it is the malice behind them that matters.
EDIT: Why is there no "I am racist" option for females?
 

NoblePhilistineFox

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[HEADING=2]ALL PUMPKINS ARE RACIST!!!!![/HEADING]

OT:
we are all a little racist,
its how you mean the joke to go that depends on wheather or not its not funny.
for example, every racist joke I intend it to be a "joke"
I have never told a joke like that at an innapropriate time, and the people who I tell the joke to(basically everyone) all know that I mean it that way.
I dont go crazy with them, but I like white people(im white'ish) racist jokes the best because its hard to make somthing funny about the majority.
 

Veylon

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I find them funny when it's understood that no one really believes it.

I remember a SNL(?) skit where they have mock black-and-white show about a white couple. Then they get a knock on the door and there's a black couple there. They stare at them a minute, and then the first wife says, "I'd ask you to make yourself at home, but we don't have any liquor." And the audience laughs.

But the joke isn't that blacks are drunks, it's that whites would automatically assume that they are, and that the butt of the joke is the white couple for being ignorantly and obliviously racist.
 

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dogstile said:
I'm intrigued. I got called racist yesterday for laughing at a racist joke. I also enjoy a good "sammich, get me one" joke every now and again and my female friends seem to have no problem with this.

I'm not racist and i'm definitely not sexist (Hell, some might say I like women a little /too/ much.) But I see nothing wrong with enjoying these jokes from time to time. Especially if you don't say them in spite or to anyone you know is going to take offence at them. But of course many people disagree.

So, lets keep this thread clean, no actual racism or sexism here please!

What are your thoughts on this?
This is what I answered:
"Male: No, and everyone who does find it funny must be racist."
I think it's selfexplanatory.
 

Kortney

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I think there should be no boundaries with comedy. If we as a society are too afraid to even mention, commentate, critique or even joke about racism how on Earth will we get past it?
 

TheLaofKazi

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I like racist and sexists jokes because many of them are either so absurd and ridiculous and that some people actually whole heartedly view the world like that, or that they are partially true. A lot of stereotypes have at least a little bit of truth to them. I don't take them seriously though, but generalizations and stereotypes can make for a great joke, both in the completely ignorant and partially true sense.

joshuaayt said:
I despise discrimination...but jokes are fine. I only dislike such things if they are said with ill intent; things like your sammich joke clearly aren't
I don't believe there is a 'too far' for these jokes, as far as content goes- it is the malice behind them that matters.
EDIT: Why is there no "I am racist" option for females?
I agree, it's the intent behind the statement that matters. It's something that I feel a lot of people unfortunately don't realize though. People can't use like ****** or ****** without being called discriminatory, when that's not always the case, because the person's intent might not be discriminatory. It's understandable though, because those words have become loaded aggressive terms by racists and homophobes using them. But by being offended by them, in a way, that's letting the racist, homophobic and other hate-filled people win. You are letting them turn a word into a weapon.
 

Vorpals

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It's really situational. As long as it the person(s) delivering the joke and the person(s) "receiving" the joke know that it is just in good fun and it's funny, it's fine with me. However, all of the traditional joke guidelines apply.