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Humor is a problem?
"What do you get with a Russian and a bottle of vodka"
"An empty bottle"
People are afraid of laughing at jokes that could be considered racist, this is utterly pointless as humor no matter how offense is still humor. It is only by joking about something that we prove we accept it. A society where a white man can say 'nigger' in a joke and people not get all PC (politically correct for those under a rock) is a truly tolerant society. I however am an Anglo-Saxon male meaning I am the world's punching bag, everyone has some gripe against me yet I am the only one who will get in trouble for making a racially tinged joke.
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Your efforts to make this a noteable topic are recognized, but there are many things that I disagree on in this article.
It is very difficult for me to take someone who is trying to make a point seriously while there are run-on sentences and grammatical errors.
To the point of your article. I agree with your take on the easily offended people who can't, as people say, take a joke. However, racial jokes that are focused specifically on a certain group (such as the statement posted in the beginning)can be considered offensive and should not be said/written. I find it that more and more people are making up jokes that are directed towards a certain color of a person's skin. I would find it offensive if I was a Russian and so much generalized as to call me a drunk.
Thank you for understanding my point.
I understand where you're coming from, and it is a double-standard. But the reason why it is accepted is this: for centuries the Caucasians of this country have been holding tons of double standards and prejudices against blacks and anyone else who's not white. So I think everyone else lets us have that one double-standard of being able to make fun of white people (and not even in public).
Also, by the way, Caucasian (Caucasianism?) isn't a race. Neither is black. Nor Hispanic. There is only one race: the human race. What we call "race" is just one of the millions if irrationable concepts us humans have invented to further separate ourselves.
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