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Racist Comedy

Bodhisattva said:
Now, I think this routine is great. I love the joke... BUT... why is it that it seems that only black people can make racist jokes about them being on the abusive end of white hooded clansmen, murdering white cops, etc but white people can't make jokes about murdering street gangs of black thugs?

Black comedian on Trailer trash white people? All good.

White comedian on black inner city failing student athlete? Racism.

Anybody about a Jew that is not Jewish? Racist.

Are there double standards? I think that there are. Why if you agree and why not if you don't?

Cheers!
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Not true. Stand-up comedians make ethnic jokes about folks that aren't their ethnicity all the time. For example, I saw a comic once say to a black heckler the following: "Quiet down now, we're not at the movies".

Or, another comic regarding Captain Kirk: "Perhaps the bravest thing he did was let an asian drive".

Now are these two jokes making fun of ethnic stereotypes racist even though the first wasn't made by a black person and the second wasn't made by an asian person? I guess it would be if you actually hated black or asian people.

Personally I don't hate anyone.

Except for the Belgians. Those bastards and their waffles, I tell ya! Who do they think they are?
 
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