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Post by
mindthegap5
lol this jew walks into a bar...
Post by
Arathian
lol this jew walks into a bar...
Next thing we knew, all the ashtrays were full
okey, sorry. But seriously though, if he asked about anyone getting offended, just say "yes, I can get offended". He obviously WASN'T a racist because he asked.
I don't blame him that much, more I blame you because you prefered to stay in silence. If you have a problem AND they ask you, say it.
Post by
Kayzewolf
Being Jewish isn't a race. Though the Indian thing... Well really, I feel 'humans' are a race and color/features are of diversity, but not a different race.
Anyways, as said, people will be idiots. Don't raid with them and report them. All that can be done.
Post by
Loosa
Being Jewish isn't a race.
Finally, someone gets this.
And for all the other offensive jokes, there are 2 main reasons why people may find them funny:
It doesn't actually affect them. 9/11 doesn't affect me, so I can find jokes about it a lot funnier than Americans.
The subject of the joke is so alien to them that they find it funny. Such as dead baby jokes. The idea could be so impossible to imagine, people could find it funny for lack of a better response.
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95537
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Post by
Gnomespwn
Jews are a nation, not a race.
As for Indian jokes... How many of them were killed by British, French, Spanish etc colonists even for 200 hundred years? And what if we start counting from Columbus?
There was some heavy genocide going on.
Post by
crsh1976
You virtually kill millions of kitties and rabbits and human and orcs in this game.
I will need to crucify you for such actions of genocide in a complete spawn zone.... until it respawns....
But wait no, its a game. And a game isn't real. Just like those holocaust jokes.
If you dont like it its your problems, I find racist jokes funny because I'm not racist and the situations given and the irony usually provided by racist jokes are just hilarious.
Hey, just like I kill rabbits in Dalaran with 1 shot of my healer's dagger for 400 damage just to see if I would get a lucky crit. I haven't killed a single one in real life. (EDIT: actually I lied I had rabbit meat before)
So stop being so hypocritical and learn to take a joke mate, the world will be run by my generation in a few years so you better start learning now, and what better place to do it than the only current mass media controlled by young people? The internet!
Where exactly do you draw the line, then? Only when it's something that has directly affected you in some capacity? So others who have had different life experiences should align themselves on your personal take of what constitutes are joke and what doesn't?
Empathy is a lost art, or should I say, just plain old common decency.
Post by
sutasafaia
You virtually kill millions of kitties and rabbits and human and orcs in this game.
I will need to crucify you for such actions of genocide in a complete spawn zone.... until it respawns....
But wait no, its a game. And a game isn't real. Just like those holocaust jokes.
If you dont like it its your problems, I find racist jokes funny because I'm not racist and the situations given and the irony usually provided by racist jokes are just hilarious.
Hey, just like I kill rabbits in Dalaran with 1 shot of my healer's dagger for 400 damage just to see if I would get a lucky crit. I haven't killed a single one in real life. (EDIT: actually I lied I had rabbit meat before)
So stop being so hypocritical and learn to take a joke mate, the world will be run by my generation in a few years so you better start learning now, and what better place to do it than the only current mass media controlled by young people? The internet!
Where exactly do you draw the line, then? Only when it's something that has directly affected you in some capacity? So others who have had different life experiences should align themselves on your personal take of what constitutes are joke and what doesn't?
Empathy is a lost art, or should I say, just plain old common decency.
That is kind of the problem right there. There should be a line, but it's very hazy and it's defined by each individual person. Racism means something different to every person, the same as every person has a different moral code, or a different honor system, or really just about anything about that person.
Just because person A finds a joke to be horribly offensive doesn't mean person B will, and there is absolutely nothing wrong with either of them.
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Post by
lonewarrior
I'm a member of the older generation. Yeah maybe some members of today's young generation are dumb enough to tell racist jokes..but it was some members of the much older generation(though young at the time) who socially applied it(colored bathrooms..etc). So..maybe one's generation is no better or smarter then another.
The sad part is not so much telling the racist or holocaust joke...it's that they find it funny enough to tell.
I guess history lessons aren't a top priority in school these days.
Post by
crsh1976
I just go with the basic "I would never say this in RL" guideline, but I guess I'm boring that way. I'm not saying people should never say something risqué, but context is key; anything taken out of context can be made to sound offensive and gratuitous.
That said, using some judgement never killed anyone, but that doesn't seem to be the current social fad. Saying something offensive for the shock value is cruise control for coolness, just like using all caps.
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374287
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Post by
Defhel
Agression, violence or just offensive behavior/"jokes"/ and/or making fun of given Religion/Race/Beliefs is sign of psychological weakness
so you can laugh at them and know that they're doing it to be "cool" because they're afraid of not having people on their side ("friends").
And if the group of that kind of people (excuse me, "friends") gets together then it's just a mass stupidity
and everyone pretends to be "cool" picking on stereotypes (Jews, Blacks, Muslim etc.)
because it's the easiest target that is also "hated" by the public
(ex. all Muslim people are Terrorists )
In other words, they're MORONS (the only thing you'll find while not looking for it) ;)
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242340
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Post by
wildrooster27
If you joke about 9/11 than you support what the Islamic Terrorists did.
Simple as that.
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Post by
whysoserious
What's so offensive about the color of someones skin? It's only offensive because you WANT it to be.
It's offensive because it clearly indicates that the person who tells the joke and the people who laugh at it have some kind of stereotype against your race/religion/etc, or otherwise regard you as an inherently inferior person.
Or it means they are spending way to much time on the internet in places like 4chan. You gotta admit this kind of so called "humor" runs rampant in places like 4chan.
Stop breaking rule 1 and 2 please kthnks.
On-topic:
It's just a joke, grow some balls and laugh about it. The game is all about loosening a bit, stop being serious.
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