Don't racist jokes *require* racism? Been a while since I've heard one. In the Southwest, hate flows along ethnic not racial lines. So I guess I am asking.
But take a dumb blonde joke. If you specify that the blonde is a member of Mensa and has a PhD from Stanford, then the joke is not only not funny, it just doesn't make sense. If you don't, though, then the blonde is presumed to, well, be having a blonde moment. And we all chuckle at the stereotype. But you seem to be saying that it's possible to tell a racist joke without having racism involved in any way? How? Caveat: I have not heard anything more about this particular joke than I have seen here, ie not enough to make a call. I have not listened to Rush live in decades, and the last clip of his I watched was on Michael J Fox's medications. So maybe I am missing something. But I don't think so. On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 11:48 AM, Chris Stoner <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't intend to suggest that people have no right to be offended by his > comments nor that they have no right to voice their displeasure. I just > don't subscribe to the idea that an insensitive joke equates to proof of > hatred or malice. The simplest way to sum up my feelings on such is that > people say often stupid crap but that does not inherently make them evil. > > As too your implication that my standards are below par, all I can say is > that you do not know me. I might not value exactly the same things in > exactly the same way as you do, but I most certainly have values that are > dear to me. For instance, I value honesty over sensitivity and actions > over > words and have a strong belief that insensitive jokes are only > as powerful/offensive/relevant as one allows them to be. > > So yes, you absolutely can take offense to a multitude of stupid crap that > Rush Limbaugh has said on his show. You can even post to your hearts > content on as many mailing lists as you like in an attempt to solicit the > appropriate level of offense from others. You can suggest that > people, whose moral compass has a differing true north from yours, have > sub-standard standards. You can even throw in some condescension and a > dash > of superiority to make those pathetic few who've failed to see the light, > feel dirty and less than human. None of which proves your outrage to > be anything more then an opinion based on inferring malice where stupidity > (or jackassery) will equally suffice. > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 12:17 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > some other stuff in response > > > > On Thu, Aug 18, 2011 at 8:17 AM, Chris Stoner <[email protected]> wrote: > > > some stuff > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:341703 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
