Heard it all before..

Gotta disagree there. Sad is not it is not is it not?

Its more derogatory stereotypes, that associate negative traits to a group, in this case blacks, but it could be resorting to the 'all jews are tight with money' etc. Its pretty much a definition of racism.

No, that's subjective....That type of thinking is what leads to today's thought police nonsense.

Misogynistic and given its a trend thats long since past. Of course most comedians would make jokes about 'their mother in law', rather than all mother in laws.

Misogynistic? Jokes using stereotypes don't prove a mental state, physical actions do. Would you like every word you utter to be taken as factual evidence of what you believe in? Someone can tell a hundred mother-in-law jokes and actually really like their mother-in-law.

No, see the bit about irony, and of course the excellent Office Sketch about Chris Rock.

Do you mean that when black comedians make jokes about blacks they are being ironic, but if a white comedian does it they are being racist? So if Chris Rock makes a joke about white people he's a racist or being Ironic? I'm not sure what you think here.

Its called reverse racism. The point to bear in mind is the historical context of racism, which typically has been the idea of a 'white supremacy', as exampled in the philosophy of Imperialism. The experience of racism, historically is such that the experience of white northern europeans isn't really on a par with say black, asian or indians exposed to white northern european cultures.

Are you saying that some racism is justified on an historical context? ..So does this mean that if some German killed my great-grandfather in the First World War, and another German killed my Grandfather in the Second World War that I can be justified in telling jokes about this generation of Germans? As it is somehow my genetic right? The logic doesn't work.
It's my racist reason is more important than your racist reason. No, the concept of equality means that everyone is equal.

So it should be fine to either have a situation where anybody can make a racial joke about any race or no one can make a racial joke.....This would be equality.
I would prefer the former, but watch for hate incitement....I think the current laws are just about right on this.

Or enables prejudice, or relies on it. Racism hasn't always been associated with hatred, as exampled in Imperialism. Its also, the empowerment of a 'superiority' either racially, or culturally.

No, that's too subjective...That suffocates creativity, that is the creation of thought policing.

So you're saying they empower racist ideas and reactions, but thats fine. I'll draw a line and say they actually have to be funny, or ironic, to avoid actually being racist.

So if you don't find it funny or ironic you deem it racist? That's the tricky subjective line....Personally I feel we should be careful with throwing around these loaded terms and only call people racist when it is fairly obvious or admitted.

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