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Can of Worms: Does telling a racist joke make you racist?
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Post by
pikeyboy
There's a very good song on youtube: Kevin Bloody Wilson, entitled "You can't say %^&* in Canada."
On topic, could people please define what they mean by "race"?
My friend Rounik and I used to shock people in cafés by calling each other "Paki bastard" (he's from Gujerat) and "Gringo/Yankee Dollar wanker" (I'm British). That was just having fun playing on stereotypes, and peoples reactions. Racist? Or was it the profanities that shocked, given that we were doing it in a city where words like that were heard everywhere, and unremarkable?
Post by
EnigmaPunch
My friend Rounik and I used to shock people in cafés by calling each other "Paki bastard" (he's from Gujerat) and "Gringo/Yankee Dollar wanker" (I'm British). That was just having fun playing on stereotypes, and peoples reactions. Racist? Or was it the profanities that shocked, given that we were doing it in a city where words like that were heard everywhere, and unremarkable?
See this is the point I was making about the situation, the person delivering the jibe, and the audience receiving it.
To you and your friend using these comments at each other, you don't see it as racist, as it is just light hearted jibe, you are not attempting to offend, or hurt each other.
However, if you were to use those same comments in a public setting, among people who didn't know you, or the nature of your relationship, then you are probably going to get some strange looks, and possibly even some complaints from people who are offended but the racial nature of your comments.
Post by
pikeyboy
Exactly. It was racist, but defusing racism by showing the idiocy of it. The gentle way we said those things belied the meaning of the words, and added to the impact. We only ever did it in a very public setting, it was a "Jackass" kind of thing. We always used to hug each other at the end, to prevent any animosity.
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Squishalot
Exactly. It was racist, but defusing racism by showing the idiocy of it. The gentle way we said those things belied the meaning of the words, and added to the impact. We only ever did it in a very public setting, it was a "Jackass" kind of thing. We always used to hug each other at the end, to prevent any animosity.
Pikey, can I get your opinion on this ad?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkcUq1LBdaA
Post by
pikeyboy
It's good. Especially for the 9-14 age group, as I remember some of those jokes being passed around in school. It'd be better if they interspersed images of the consequences of bigotry and racism as well.
Post by
fenomas
The was recently a TV show on the ABC in Australia (can't for the life of me remember the name at the moment) which had a studio audience, and put them all through a series of indivisual tests about race etc.
Do you remember when it was on? Sounds interesting.
If you're looking for more information, a guess it sounds like the topic was
IAT
.
On topic, could people please define what they mean by "race"?
Just what society means. There's no real definition for race, except that a person belongs to a race if he and the people around him think he does.
My friend Rounik and I used to shock people in cafés by calling each other "Paki bastard" (he's from Gujerat) and "Gringo/Yankee Dollar wanker" (I'm British).
My friends and I did that in college. I'd come in from class and the Korean guys next door would say "Hey, how's your dad's bank doing?", and I'd say, "We might have to foreclose on your dad's dry cleaners" and so forth. It was mostly a backlash to all the tedious PC orientation classes we'd just been through.
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