The GOP is back

[Black]

swampy wrote:
$tevie..."I hope someone makes jokes when someone in your family dies, I hope they laugh their asses off."

So very thoughtful of you. Your selective political correctness is so charming. I've found that most people who are politically correct don't have much of a sense of humor. They take things oh so seriously. They offend easily.

The emailed "joke" is funny because it points out the irony of the two situations when juxtaposed.

Ever heard of Jeff Dunham? Achmed the Dead Terrorist? Funny stuff. Who would ever have thought someone could make jokes about suicide bombers? It takes a brilliant mind to do so and a open mind to find it funny.

Funny only to those who hate arabs enough to happily pie on to stereotyping that ruins american lives. To your credit you have never pretended to harbor anything but hatred for arab men.

Ever heard of Black (or dark) Humor? "Black humor, in literature, drama, and film, grotesque or morbid humor used to express the absurdity, insensitivity, paradox, and cruelty of the modern world. Ordinary characters or situations are usually exaggerated far beyond the limits of normal satire or irony. Black humor uses devices often associated with tragedy and is sometimes equated with tragic farce. For example, Stanley Kubrick's film Dr. Strangelove; or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1963) is a terrifying comic treatment of the circumstances surrounding the dropping of an atom bomb, while Jules Feiffer's comedy Little Murders (1965) is a delineation of the horrors of modern urban life, focusing particularly on random assassinations. The novels of such writers as Kurt Vonnegut, Thomas Pynchon, John Barth, Joseph Heller, and Philip Roth contain elements of black humor."

I think we all understand and apreciate black humor and understand how the joke superficially fits that mold. The reason it is offensive is that it is based on unfair premises, assumptions, and bias (the basic one being that backs are ignorant) and the recipient would need to buy into to these to find any humor in it. The sender of the joke obviously holds these racist views to see humor, and expect others to receive it the same way. It's not satire, it's not parody, it's not irony-- it's "black people are so stupid that _____" with a little lipstick on it.