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That's so cool! Will it bounce?

Xamindar wrote:That's so cool! Will it bounce?

Well, it's a fish, isn't it?

Bettina wrote: I wish you would check that link and offer an opinion

Sometimes you just KNOW you don't want to see what's on the other side of a link. BUT, I clicked since you asked.

It wasn't funny. It was a bunch of stupid and offensive racist garbage.

I can enjoy racial humor.

Why did God invent whiskey? To keep the Irish from ruling the world!

GOOD racial humor highlights and exaggerates some racial stereotype in a manner that is humorous, not mean. One good sign of the difference between racial humor and racism is that good racial humor is most often funniest to members of the race being lampooned. Actually, you're most likely to hear the joke coming from a member of that race. (The Irish joke above was told to me by someone of Irish descent)

But there is a fuzzy grey area where good natured racial humor starts drifting over into mean. And then there are cases where there can be no doubt that you've gone way past funny and into hatred.

The same is true for "jokes" about other groups besides race. Men and women make jokes about the differences between our genders all the time. It's a funny topic that DESERVES some good jokes. But you can tell when the jokes shift from "we are different and humor is a good way to talk about that", to "I hate the other gender and humor is a good way to insult them"

I can't imagine why anyone would think the link in question was in any way funny. The tone isn't humorous, its insulting and derogatory. I doubt if it was really written by white supremacists, but it was deliberately designed to sound like it was. It's a page of vitriolic hatred and derision. Where is the humor or the benefit in such a link?

I don't get it, but then perhaps the context here has something to do with that. The whole thread began with discussing a "shock" program. I don't get programs that are deliberately designed to be offensive, not because they are trying to make an important point, but simply to be offensive. Why has offensive become "funny?"

For example:

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Isaac wrote:For example:

lol..wth??!

5 pages of derailed?

Kilarin wrote:The whole thread began with discussing a "shock" program. I don't get programs that are deliberately designed to be offensive, not because they are trying to make an important point, but simply to be offensive. Why has offensive become "funny?"

its not. its the people that become offended that are funny.
Sadly, this thread is no longer funny. Its actually a hybrid of fail and AIDS.
thats why I'm taking the link down.

Hate crime:

That IS funny Isaac!

S13driftAZ wrote:its the people that become offended that are funny.

The reactions of sensitive people can be amusing, but it's kinda like pushing over a cripple for laughs. Not very sporting.

<edit> Realized the above sounded snotty. I didn't mean it that way since I HAVE done this myself. Sometimes pushing peoples buttons is very tempting. </edit>

S13driftAZ wrote:thats why I'm taking the link down

Thanks. That will probably be for the best.

Think about what that cat did to that baby seconds after the shot was taken...

SilverFJ wrote:Think about what that cat did to that baby seconds after the shot was taken...

I wonder about that as well.