--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "authfriend" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <sparaig@> wrote: > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, TurquoiseB <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Gillam" > > > <jpgillam@> wrote: > > > > ---authfriend wrote: > > > > > > > > > > Does this strike anybody as just a wee bit racist? > > > > > > > > Probably. But I consider all such criticisms of humor > > > > to be category errors. In my world, humor cannot be > > > > racist, insensitive, unjustified or subject to any > > > > descriptors other than "funny" or "not funny." > > > > > > > > All humor derives from something being wrong or > > > > out of the ordinary. To condemn it for being *too* > > > > wrong or *too* out of the ordinary seems to miss the > > > > point. To me, it's either amusing or not. > > > > > > > > The greatest condemnation I can apply to a joke is > > > > not to be amused. > > > > > > Well said. > > > > > > Humor is exempt. It has immunity, and is beyond > > > the jurisdiction of political correctness. > > > > > > > Mmmmmm... > > > > Did you hear the one about the two niggers? > > Yeah, wasn't the punchline something about all them > niggers want is tight pussy and a warm place to shit? >
OR a million others. I found two books buried in boxes from my grandmother's house. My mother threw them out and I recovered them once but she threw them out again. Too bad. They're great as a study of how to use humor to keep a certain segment of population down. They were called "Coloured Fun" and "More Coloured Fun" and were written by the "greatest" toastmaster of Texas. Take any Pollak joke and change it to "nigger" (or vulcan or whatever) and you get the idea. My point, as I'm sure you've gotten, is that not all humor is humor for laughing but humor for attacking. THOSE jokes, I judge people by whether they find them funny or not, not the other way around. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Join modern day disciples reach the disfigured and poor with hope and healing http://us.click.yahoo.com/lMct6A/Vp3LAA/i1hLAA/UlWolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
