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Old 12-05-2008, 11:27 PM
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It was sorta funny and would have worked coming from Chris Rock or Chappel but not from a white guy.

The intent was racist. Hard to deny it. Denigration is denigration. I wouldn't have freaked out about it but I wouldn't have said it either.

FWIW, I was once in line at a grocery store in Seattle and one of the checkers was saying something to another one about a woman and ended derisively with, "yeah, well she was blonde."

Tow headed cmac, just behind him, said "Let's not have any racism now."

Dude, balding with dark hair said, "but, but, she was from California."

cmac (doing the horizontal flexing arms backwards routine) says: "Well us blonde people get a little tired of that stuff."

It's just weak $h!t. Running someone else down in a vain attempt to feel superior. Don't be dissing my sister, foo'.

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Old 12-05-2008, 11:37 PM
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Eh, even if it came from Chris Rock, it still wouldn't have been funny to me. Faster than rims at a PDiddy concert? WTH? BOOOO! Git off the stage! You suck!
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Old 12-06-2008, 09:26 AM
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In terms of social equality: It's not a level playing field. It never was. It never will be. Not meaning necessarily in a racist sense. There are plenty of inequalities to choose from and most of them have incongruities that result in humor as well as offense. This is why we teach our children common courtesy.

If I had said that and somebody got offended I would say, "Im sorry if you were offended, it was meant for private conversation." Then let it drop. And I would truly be sorry that I offended the guy. I wouldn't do so intentionally out of the blue.

IMO, humor is best when it isn't personally offensive. But the really best humor skirts right along the edge! If you're going for the gold you gotta expect bruises.
I agree with all of this. It's when a "group" distances itself and differentiates itself it automatically says to anyone NOT included in the group "we are different". That group now cannot complain that is being treated differently (in a negative OR positive way) since they themselves made the distinction of being different.
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Old 12-06-2008, 11:11 AM
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Gone faster than the mayonnaise at a white bread family reunion?
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Old 12-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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Gone faster than the mayonnaise at a white bread family reunion?
Racist!

You anti-mayonnite!
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Old 12-06-2008, 12:05 PM
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I agree with all of this. It's when a "group" distances itself and differentiates itself it automatically says to anyone NOT included in the group "we are different". That group now cannot complain that is being treated differently (in a negative OR positive way) since they themselves made the distinction of being different.
Under PC rules, it can.
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Gone faster than the mayonnaise at a white bread family reunion?
Mayo is ok on a McChicken. Other than that I don't have any real liking for mayo. Does that make me bad?
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Old 12-06-2008, 12:43 PM
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Under PC rules, it can.

Let's plug is one group-

When the white supremacists say anyone else dumb is it OK and PC?
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Old 12-06-2008, 12:51 PM
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Look at the stuff that Dave Chappelle did!! Remember the video on Obama's first day as president with slavery reparations? Chappelle was dressed in a suit with a brown wig.

There is a double standard and a number of groups use it to their advantage now. They say whites will no loner be the majority. When that happens, I will issue plaintive cries of racism and discrimination.

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Old 12-06-2008, 12:56 PM
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Gone faster than the mayonnaise at a white bread family reunion?
I know what you were getting at, but you don't have to be white to be "white bread", at least to me! To me, to be white bread means the same thing to me as being plain vanilla, just plain old boring, no variety, etc... Folks of any race can be an ultra boring Buzz Killington, and mayo (which I don't particularly care for) is one of the blandest, most boring condiments out there. It makes plain mustard look like the hottest cayenne pepper sauce available.

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Mayo is ok on a McChicken. Other than that I don't have any real liking for mayo. Does that make me bad?
Yes, you're a very very bad man! How dare you not like mayo! You also probably don't enjoy hearing the story about the founding of the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company (yes, I stole that from Family Guy). Or maybe you're part Texan, mustard is the condiment of choice here when making potato salad, or dressing up a burger. Heck, we even cook the mustard plant to make mustard greens.

Ok, got off topic. . .

The guy's P Diddy joke sucked not cause of race, but it just plain sucked. That joke was the suckiest suck that ever sucked. It made (insert any mediocre comedian's name here) look like George Carlin or Richard Pryor.
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Old 12-06-2008, 01:32 PM
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^^^ Michael Richards?
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Look at the stuff that Dave Chappelle did!! Remember the video on Obama's first day as president with slavery reparations? Chappelle was dressed in a suit with a brown wig.

There is a double standard and a number of groups use it to their advantage now. They say whites will no loner be the majority. When that happens, I will issue plaintive cries of racism and discrimination.

BLAAAAAA
Chapelle is funny. Part of the funny is the mockery of the joke itself.
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Old 12-06-2008, 04:35 PM
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Doesn't P Diddy go by just Diddy these days? Maybe offense was taken at using the old handle

I know a fellow named Sean Coombs and he doesn't hear the end of it.

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Old 12-06-2008, 05:07 PM
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I think that what I herd in this coversation was uncalled for. I dont really feel that it is racist. Watch this video. That is racism and ignorance at its best.

http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=extermination%20of%20white%20people%3F&ie=UTF-8&um=1&sa=N&tab=wv#

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