Nordling
V.I.P. AmberLander
Yes, and there's a big difference between "bringing up race" [or ethnicity] and making a crude, hateful joke or comment. Also a difference between a "racial joke" and a "racist joke." One is simply rude and we should be beyond that, while the other is pure hate and should never be tolerated by people who think they're civilized.The_Brown_Fox said:Bocefish said:Maybe the comment was actually funny :dontknow: There's plenty of fucked up racial jokes that are funny. Unless it was intentionally meant to hurt somebody, I wouldn't consider a WTF moment.
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When Black people joke about how much they love red-flavored Kool-Aid (Red is not a flavor...lmao!) and how they don't know a damn thing about golf, that's cool.
When some idiot jokes about Black women on welfare, needing to abort their babies because they'll grow up to be criminals, I don't consider that "innocent." Sorry.
And if it's so innocent, I'd like to see him try to use that joke in a Black model's room (I bet he won't).....
The problem with racial humor, and yeah, most people have laughed at it, is that it encourages people who don't know the difference. But in this instance, Foxie specifically said the comment or "joke" was racist. So, maybe we who weren't there, should assume that her judgement was correct.