Excellent point. However, in your example the idiots were the white people using the slur and the black guy was the smart one. In the joke posted it was just thrown in there to denigrate people.
Here's the gist of the joke stricken:
Obama and McCain are sitting together. McCain says something like, \"Hey! Did you know Stevie Wonder and Oprah had the same nickname in high school?\" Obama laughs and says, \"No! What was it?\" McCain says, \"N-.\" Obama gives a disappointed look.
Was it funny? Kinda. Was it unnecessary? Yes.
eh, it depends on the crowd you're delivering to. The punchline is more about Obama's disappointed look than the punchline of the obviously racist joke McCain is saying. Chris Rock's 'N-----'s vs. black people is a another example of that actual word being used in a funny way. Then again Chris Rock is black and allowed to use that word. I tend to like sexist jokes, but that's mainly because they're so insanely stupid and cliched that you can't help but to laugh (kinda like that Obama one above). For example: "Go to the kitchen and bake me a pie" never gets old. It's obviously supposed to be satirical of idiots that think racist and sexist jokes by themselves are funny. I guess the actual satire of racist jokes is what I find funny, over the joke itself.
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Ah, the 60's:
Yeah, let's avoid things with that kind of hateful and racist language shall we?
-Espy
So violence is fine, but racist words are not?![/QUOTE]
Depends on the violence now, doesn't it? Some violence done in a funny way can be funny. But I have a hard time seeing when the N-word has people in stitches.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, insulting words are way worse then violence... so it's way harder to use them in a funny way, unlike breaking some guys face, which is easily made hilarious...
If you guys said it was disrespectful to Obama or McCain i wuld have just sigh and moved on, but doing it just because a word is too annoying to let go...
BTW, here, i think you'll be able to tell which one it was:
http://www.celestialheavens.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=2307&start=1530[/QUOTE]
Oh you were over the line and you know it. Just suck it up and admit it.