Originally posted by: Arkitech
wow
If anyone here has read any of my posts you would know I'm not an overly PC, racially sensitive person. However I don't find it in good taste to make jokes about slavery, the holocaust, 911 or any other tragedy where people were repressed or killed. I'd like to see some of you crack a few jokes about the soldiers who lost their lives in Iraq around their parents. Yeah, yeah I know what you're gonna reply next, "slavery happened a long time ago, no one from back then is still alive", "don't be so sensitive". Well my response to those kind of comments are fvck you, I don't find it humorous when people make jokes about others who were physically abused, raped, murdered and treated like sub-humans. I'm a direct descendant of those people and yes I'm sensitive about jokes that make light of the situation.
Moshquerade you're a gem in my book, not just because you're taking a stance in this post but because I've noticed you always try to be reasonable when some of these threads degenerate into something less than acceptable.
EDIT:
In retrospect I realize some of you may not intend on being malicious, but you gotta realize that you can't joke about everything. One of these days you could crack a joke around the wrong person and it could cost you a job/career, a friendship or even your life. And it's not like I don't appreciate humour or freak out over every little thing, hell I listen to Stern almost everyday but...
ahh fvck it what's the use, it's not like anyone listens to what others have to say these days anyway
Wah wah wah.... all I hear..
maybe you should take a lesson from People like Carlos Mencia no race or religion is beyond the power of a joke..
look at Dave Chappelle.. guess its ok if youre BLACK to make fun of slavery but god forbid a white man or any other race say a damn thing..
Dave Chappelle bags on white guys all the time.
as well as pretty much everything else in the world same with Carlos Mencia
and guess what.. noone takes it seriously..
You can insult my mother my country my religion or lack of it..
its all meaningless.
who really gives a FVCK what anyone else says..
this world is too PC and its getting worse..
I really care less what happened to anyones forefathers.. do you really think any of our forefathers didnt have it rough at some point in time?
get over it already..
people are just too thin skinned in this generation..
and there are too many double standards..