If you laugh at a racial joke, does that automatically make you a racist? Because I laugh at jokes about my race, even when they are told by people of other races. Isn't a joke just a joke as long as it is not directly insulting to that race?
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It is just that a joke. I am a racist and it has nothing to do with jokes that made me that way. Did ya hear they are going to turn the rose garden at the swhitehouse into a watermelon patch now that Obama became president.
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I think if you hear a race joke and its funny, why not laugh. We are human we laugh at what is funny. Now Mr. Bill should not be telling those jokes.
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I don't see the problem with it, with a sense of humor-you can laugh at yourself(I have). Some people are just too serious.
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I dont care if you make jokes about me. I think people need to lighten up. Unless the joke is meant to be hurtful, Then its totally wrong.
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I drink some Saturdays with Frank, a great Irish bloke who tells some of the funniest Irish jokes I have heard in my life, he has us all in stitches. Just jokes, not to be taken seriously, thats the whole point :-)
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I've heard a lot of racial jokes and most of them pretty funny and, in my opinion--I knew the people very well--the jokes never had malicious intent or detrimental to that particular race. In addition, the jokes were all races: blacks, whites, red-neck, hillbellies, mexicans, asians, arabs, indians, you name it, and I really never had any problem with that. And me being me, believe me when I say I had no problem with those jokes. However, a racial joke told by a racist individual carries a different energy than the same joke told by a non-racist person. I've noticed that, too.
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No, I don't think so. I think if we all learned to laugh at ourselves, and stop taking everything so personally the world would be a better place.
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