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That Dave Chappelle example is... odd. I'm not sure the exact context, but it seems at least slightly racist. Did he really think that white people couldn't understand his humour?

Aside from that, I agree that not all jokes are exempt- it is largely based on intent. If you make a joke about how Asians can't drive, and actually believe that, then yeah, that's pretty bad. But that doesn't mean every joke about Asians being unable to drive is bad. That's the part I think people miss.

edited 15th Jun '13 12:48:12 AM by Mukora

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No it isn't. Not that bad comedy is a jailable offence.

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I dunno about you, but I've seen plenty of people's reactions to racial humor less often being "Isn't this ridiculous!?", but more often "LOL BLACK PEOPLE" or something along those lines.

It's like how people will sometimes start off a sentence by saying "I'M NOT A RACIST, BUUUUT..." and then go on and prove themselves to be awfully racist.

This. This beyond all else.

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Bad comedy should be a jailable offense.

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No argument here. Bad drama or bad action at least has the potential to be funny, but bad comedy has nowhere to go but excruciating pain. I will have the heads of Seltzer And Friedberg on a platter yet!

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Ehh, they ain't usually so bad. One of the worse movies attributed to them was done by someone else imitating them, I think - and tbh Meet The Spartans was Actually Pretty Funny mostly.

edited 15th Jun '13 7:44:09 AM by MrMallard

Yeah, Meet The Spartans wasn't that bad. But if you ever want to punish somebody, make them watch Disaster Movie. I'm not even kidding.

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Chris Rock had the same problem with his N*ggas vs. Black people sketch, people took it as a reason to be racist (I can vouch from personal experience). Also yeah, I honestly think comedy is harder than drama. That's why I don't get why some critics don't take it seriously.

This blog just seems to be blowing people's actions out of proportion. Is it necessary to point out every time someone discriminated against any group?

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I wonder what's more racist: Appropriating other cultures or excluding other cultures?

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It's questions like that that keep me up at night.

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Stereotype jokes can either reinforce stereotypes or deconstruct them. There is a difference.

Edit: Looks like I'm late on pointing that out.

As for censoring "tr**ny", that's because it's a horrible slur.

edited 17th Jun '13 10:24:47 PM by Haldo

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Censoring slurs always strikes me as pointless.

Either people understand what it is anyway, or they get stuck wondering what it is.

I just don't use them at all. :D

Well, when you're discussing a slur and trying to point out why it's bad to use it, it seems self defeating to censor it. If you act afraid of a word like that, you're giving it way too much power in the context of discussing the word itself.

Plus it looks kind of juvenile to censor words in such a way that you can tell what it is anyhow.

Typically there are two (three) reasons to censor words in such a way that you can still tell what it is. The first is to get it past a censor that does not allow swearing, so this lets adults know what is being said while kids or incredibly naive people still remain innocent.

However, I'm pretty sure the reason why this blog censors the slur, is because the person using the word is uncomfortable with it. But I don't think that really helps matters at all and is kind of a stupid reason to do it.

(the third reason is a religious reason which doesn't really factor into any of this)

People censor slurs on blogs because if someone is the target of a slur, seeing it written out in full is usually more uncomfortable than seeing it censored. I speak from experience.

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Is it really? I guess I wouldn't know. I haven't seen "kike" written out that often.

If that's true, then why only blank out two letters? Why not just the whole word? It's like, either do the whole thing or don't do it at all.

If you blank out the whole word, readers won't know which slur you're talking about. If you leave it completely uncensored, it'll be ever more uncomfortable for the people who have to deal with that slur than if it were partially censored.

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There's still a problem when people have no idea what you're talking about when you're only censoring two letters.

Solutions... uh... alt text?

edited 18th Jun '13 2:18:57 AM by ohsointocats

That could work.

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I mean it's not a slur that's used often, even if you've heard it before. I don't think I've heard it once in the past 5 years, and before then usually just by ignorant people who didn't really get it was offensive.

Like when you write n****r everyone knows what you're talking about. This is different.