Jews are a race now? What happens if an Asian converts? What race is he?
Oh don’t be so friggin’ pedantic – you know what I’m getting at.
I also know that it is not what you said.
It’s a real problem nowadays that all sorts of shit gets pegged as “racial” when it isn’t. Why add to the confusion? Why not say what you mean?
Really, I have no idea what you’re needling me about.
Edited in view of your edit: I’m not saying Jews are or aren’t a race, although that could be and has been argued, I’m only comparing offensive sounding jokes. That one sprung to mind.
He wouldn’t be regarded as having changed his race, simply confused and disoriented.
Well, I wouldn’t call it needling, but it’s about not saying what you mean. As Twain commented, the writer should –
Sorry that was unclear. Often things that make perfect sense in my head don’t translate to print very well.
Well, I did think I was being relatively clear.
Allow me to re-state. Not all jokes dealing with race are racist, just as not all jokes dealing with Jews are anti-semetic.
Sane?
You mean “disasiated.”
Regards,
With a plate of regards a la ronge’ and for desert,an order of regards flambe’.
Did I forget the regards?
Shodan.
Perhaps you should change your sig to “Up yours, honky”
Actually, I don’t think they’d have any confusician any more either.
I always figured he was a teletype operator about sixty years back and could never break the habit of closing his messages in the usual manner.
I never said *anything *was racist.
You did refer to it as *racial *humor, no? What race was involved, then?
Well, maybe I didn’t think it all the way through. Making wiring connections wouldn’t be all that easy, either. I suppose movies would be boring, paintings would be drab and so on. Porn might be kind of interesting, for a while. Anyway, I’d just like to see the end of all the racist bull shit we have to deal with all day everyday: People should just be people, damn it.
Dude. You need to let this go.
**Shodan’s **joke was at Obama’s expense, and to some it could have been perceived as racial - as I friggin’ pointed out on page 1.
I took that and compared it to another joke that could have been perceived as offensive – **Cervaise’s **joke in the other thread.
End of story.
What the fuck is up with the constant pedanticness of the Pit these days. Jesus Effing Christ. Do you really need to know what my definition of “is” is?
And you don’t?
And referred to it as *racial *humor. Again, what race was involved? It’s a simple question.
Your definition of “race” will suffice.
I’m fucking trying to.
Listen, I’ve been trying to be reasonable in this thread. I think I’ve presented my opinion on the original joke pretty clearly. I just happened to have referenced a completely different joke, which seems to have gotten your shorts in even more of a fucking bunch than they seem to be from the get-go.
I’ll repeat it. Fuck, I’ll cut and paste it: Not all jokes dealing with race are racist, just as not all jokes dealing with Jews are anti-semetic.
I’m not, for the third fucking time, claiming that Judaism is a race, or that Jews are a race, or an ethnic group or whatever (although, again, that’s a different argument). I am simply – in deference to you – saying that both of the jokes I referenced (one dealing with race, one dealing with Jews) could be considered offensive.
They are similar, they are not the same.
So, once more for the cheap seats … I did not refer to a potentially anti-semetic quip as racial. In your puny mind, I seem to have, but that’s your fucking problem not mine.
Hey! This is supposed to be my Pitting!
You two cut it out and get back to flaming my lack of sexual competence, or I am turning off my sig and going back to posting the old way!
And I mean it, mister!
Regards,
Shodan
I’m with Rhythmdvl on this one; if it is a good enough line for George Clinton, it’s fine by me. May P-Funk be upon you.
As for the signing off thing, I just tend to think of it as the punchline to a bad joke:
I guess “Regards, Shodan” doesn’t mind being thought of as a racist. Since most everybody around here thinks he’s a dipshit anyway, it probably doesn’t matter.
Still…if this thread has gotten him to stop using his silly little “Regards” then it certainly has been worthwhile!
If it helps at all, you’re still an ignorant partisan hack who offers nothing to this board but catastrophic stupidity, a complete inability to debate, and an overwhelming prosecution complex. You’re just not a racist ignorant partisan hack who offers nothing to this board but catastrophic stupidity, a complete inability to debate, and an overwhelming prosecution complex.