Posted by Lou Pilder on February 2, 2003, at 7:55:04
In reply to Re: Ethnic Jokes » Lou Pilder, posted by NikkiT2 on February 2, 2003, at 5:50:47
NikkiT2,
The question at hand here is about the posting of "ethnic" jokes as a response to the post about "rednecks".
If we look at the following book title,[...The French Chef, by Sue Flay], there is humor in the title to some, [not ] because of [making fun of a person's {ethnicicity} or because the person belongs to a class of people or race or religion or national origin or handicap or sexual orientation etc...The person, Sue Flay, is [not] being ridiculed for being what they are, such as a person that has been labeled a "redneck". If we look at the following we could also see that a person is not being ridiculed for [being what they are].
One person asks another, "Why did the chicken cross the road, roll in a mud puddle, then cross the road again?"
The other person answers, "Because the chicken was a {dirty double- crosser.}
Now some people could think that was funny. And I have laughed at it myself. But the joke does not belittle people, or demean people or make fun of a peoples. I am not against telling a joke here. What I am against is the demeaning of a peoples by the venue of "joking" which is referred to as "ethnic" jokes. There is a differentiating body of factors that do make some jokes acceptable and some not. It is my beliefe that the overiding criteria to deem unacceptability is ;[Does it use language or expressions, innapropriatly toward a class or race of people, etc.., or expressions that demean a particular class of people?]. Dr bob just flagged the [...pizza ...olive...] post, and I agree with him wholeheartedly. I agree with him because it used an expression involving a class of people,inappropreatly, in this case by race.
Lou
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