Jun 13, 2012 -- 5:41PM, Roodog wrote:

I read this from a rabbi:

"Keep family jokes within the family." meaning it is okay for people to joke about their own people.

Chris Rock can joke about Blacks and Jeff Foxworthy can joke about Southern Whites; It is equally wrong for the two to exchange material.

We are all "our own people". Dividing by race  just contributes to strengthen the separation.

Jun 13, 2012 -- 12:08PM, Marcion wrote:

The liberal imbeciles won't rest until they strip us of all ourbasic rights as Americans.

As usual, Regressives whine when they are not allowed to strip the rights of others. It's kind of like a fundamentalist crying persecution when they are not allowed to persecute others. No doubt the Regressives, in their psychotic need to attack Progressives, have taken this story so far out of context that it doesn't match reality any more. The sad part is that Regressives continuously fall for it.

Jun 13, 2012 -- 4:15PM, arielg wrote:

He is just being  Rickles.  Treating racism as some sort of sacred cow that should not be talked about and  kept secret contributes more to hidden racism than openly mocking it with jokes.  It does more  to difuse the issue that hiding it and pretend it doesn't exist, because it is not mentioned.

Young blacks use "nigger" among themselves  precisely for that reason: to take away  the emotional crap associated with it and diminish it's power to offend. 

I agree with you about the whole sacred cow analogy.  However, I don't really see comparing Obama to a Janitor is racist when you could tell the same joke comparing Bush or Clinton or Regan to a janitor.  In fact it has probably been done a dozen times. 

Showing George Bush as a stupid ape is freedom of expression.  Showing Obama as a monkey is racism.   

The fact is white people, especially liberal white people love nothing more than to call other people racists.  It really rocks their world.  They also love to pontificate if such and such a statement is racist or not.  Really a big hobby for them. 

For me it has cheapened and made useless the entire term or even concept of racism.  If someone suggest in a low voice that so and so is a racist it almost does not reflect poorly on the supposid racist but instead makes me think the accuser is a A-hole. 

Mountains out of mole hills. Tempests in tea pots.

Is that the best the Regressives can come up with?

Jun 13, 2012 -- 4:15PM, arielg wrote:

He is just being  Rickles.  Treating racism as some sort of sacred cow that should not be talked about and  kept secret contributes more to hidden racism than openly mocking it with jokes.  It does more  to difuse the issue that hiding it and pretend it doesn't exist, because it is not mentioned.

Young blacks use "nigger" among themselves  precisely for that reason: to take away  the emotional crap associated with it and diminish it's power to offend. 

>>>>>>>> Exactly. He has been doing this for so long....