A lot of serious things are said in "jest", Racisim in everyday life.

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No, I'm actually not kidding. Where is the racism? Joking about the Holocaust is not really racism...

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So you feel the Holocaust is a topic to be joked about? You feel one of the largest genocides of all time is funny?

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I don't even mind the word genocide. It's "side", which is good, and a "Gen" in front of it. Gen-o-cide. When you consider the other choices, genocide is actually pretty refreshing."

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Brilliant.

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It is all about that too and there is some evidence of it in this post w/Catman's response and the racist poster's LOLs.

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So, anyone who laughed at that post is automatically anti-semitic?

That seems more shortsighted and closed minded than anything else in this thread.

That post is funny on so many levels.

As is the lollercaust. I'm goin to hell, I actually laughed out loud.

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No, I'm actually not kidding. Where is the racism? Joking about the Holocaust is not really racism...

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So you feel the Holocaust is a topic to be joked about? You feel one of the largest genocides of all time is funny?

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joe, istewart is perhaps the most anti-semitic person on this board. how he is still here is beyond me. arguing w/ him is futile.

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joe, istewart is perhaps the most anti-semitic person on this board. how he is still here is beyond me. arguing w/ him is futile.

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Sounds like something only a nazi would say.

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[Publos Nemesis]

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No, I'm actually not kidding. Where is the racism? Joking about the Holocaust is not really racism...

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What are your thoughts on joking about slavery?

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Hilarious.

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But Im sure you have a lot of black friends, so it is ok to say this.

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does it matter? the roman's enslaved white people. and thousands of years ago the jews killed people in order to get control of israel.

in the long run, we lived in a [censored] up world. the only way we can get through it is by joking about it.

please go see this movie

funny bigotry by a great jewish comedian

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saying the nazis made jews wear "flair" isnt a racist statement. Its just a factual statement.

Thats like saying "black people used to pick cotton" is a racist statement.

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cmon alobar, youre smarter than this.

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thats debatable [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]

I know what JT is getting at, I just think he picked a poor example, and just like hes a bit touchy about racism, im a bit touchy about people being a bit touchy about stuff like that. Honestly, it may just be because im not as enlightened as I should be, and coming from the background of being a white american male, I dont have alot of experience with feeling oppresed and being the victim of racism. But I also think that if its ok for other people to joke about it because they have a free card (well im jewish so I can laugh, or im black so I can say "nigger"), then im not gunna feel bad for thinking some of its funny. And I really dont think that makes me racist. I can see the humor in things without it affecting how I judge people.

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Joe, I have tons of jewish friends. On pokernights I'd be out -jewed by at least a 5:1 ratio. We love telling jew jokes when we are drunk. Does that make me, or my jewish friends, racist?

Of course not.

You are a ball buster. You like picking on your friends. Does that mean your life is so miserable you have to make them feel bad to bring yourself up?

Of course not.

To be honest I don't understand why so many people give their friends [censored].

It's humor, if you can understand it, feel free to try a career at standup or write a paper for the American Psychological Association.

[B Dids]

The thing about this is that context is REALLY important in humor, and in terms of things that are potentially offensive, that's pretty tame by IRC standards. Joe isn't in IRC as often as others, and doesn't have the benefit of that perspective.

I think it's something that somebody can find offensive, but that somebody isn't me.

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Ultimately, I care a lot more about what people DO than what they say. I grew up in the "progressive" Northeast, where everyone professes belief in equality but nobody I knew had any black friends. Then, I went to school near the Mason-Dixon line, where you would hear "racist" comments all the time, but people of different races worked and hung out together much, much, more than in the Northeast. So who's more racist?

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. I don't give a flying [censored] what most people think.