LEGO,

I've just read an interesting article on the web from
"The Conversation". on the topic of racist jokes.
It makes some excellent points.

We're told that: -

Once upon a time, making racist jokes wasn't
something that caused controversy. It was an
everyday happening you could hear in every pub
and comedy club, every night of the week.

Not only racist jokes, but jokes about the disabled,
women, the mentally handicapped, homosexuals, and so
on. That was the norm. Nothing was off-limits.
Speaking and imitating funny accents was entertaining.
We all can remember those times, I'm sure.

However changes started to develop after a while, and -

Slowly new comedians began to appear. People like -
Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Jennifer Saunders, Dawn French,
Ben Elton, to name just a few.

These new comedians pointed out that it
wasn't funny to demean, belittle, humiliate, or
dehumanize people simply for being who they were.

These comedians to many of us - were a breath of fresh air.
A collective satirical voice that rose to roar
right back at the dinosaurs.

The article also pointed out that -

We now have people arguing about the whole "free speech
under threat by political correctness" mantra.

The point being made should be that freedom is not the
only value worth upholding. There are others, such as
equal moral worth and dignity of every human being,
regardless of their race, gender, sexuality, religious
beliefs and so on. which is why humanisation is
significant here.

But some people who are part of the anti-PC brigade don't
even want to think about this.

Some think its perfectly acceptable to be racist again as
long as its delivered in a funny way. After all every body
does it. Just ask Eddie McGuire or Sam Newman or Kyle
Sandilands.

Better still why not talk to Adam Goodes?
You might get a clearer picture.

Foxy, in my youth it was the right side of politics which controlled the media, and they tried to impose their moral code on everybody else. Comediennes were usually from the left side of politics, and they had a field day pointing out the absurdities, pretentiousness, puritanism, and hypocrisies of the right. Even in the worst days of right wing political censorship, political cartoonists could get away with sticking it to overbearing authority, because even the right wingers appreciated humour. Most of them, anyway. Adolph Hitler informed the Gestapo that when Britain was invaded, he wanted one particular British cartoonist arrested for his depictions of der fuehrer.

Today it is the left who are the new moral puritans. They are now the new Establishment with a stranglehold on culture, and it is with their obsession with identity politics that is destroying humour. Comediennes are a part of the trendy lefty caste and you are losing your own supporters. I know there is woke comedy around, but all I have ever seen of "comedy" on the ABC was so excruciatingly bad that it was embarrassing to watch.

Endlessly bagging Trump supporters and anyone on the right, then and adopting an angry, sanctimonious attitude with a self righteously indignant posture when delivering a political message in every "comedy" skit, is not funny. Last I heard, the ABC had given up presenting any new woke "comedy" acts because their audience ratings were so abysmally low.

Many famous and prominent comediennes like Rowan Atkinson, John Cleese, and Michael Palin have made public announcements that PC culture is killing comedy. Gene Wilder stated that today, PC media companies would not allow his famous and iconic comedy "Blazing Saddles" to be produced.

Lastly.

Q. Why did the Lebanese Olympic boxing team go back home to Lebanon before the Olympic games started?

A. They found out it was one on one.

Q. Why do women always close their eyes when they are having sex?

A. They hate watching a man enjoying himself.

LEGO,

OK, I'll play.

Q: Why does the sun never set on the British Empire?

A: Because God did not trust the British in the dark.

And it did not even offend me, Foxy.

Here's a couple.

A man had sex with three women in a day, a prostitute, a nymphomaniac, and his wife. After his orgasm, the prostitute (all business) said "That's it then!"

The nymphomaniac said. "That's it then?"

His wife said. "Beige. I think you should paint the ceiling beige."

Two Kiwi men were having sex with two sheep when one of them started complaining. The second Kiwi man said. "What are you complaining about? I gave you the pretty one."

LEGO,

Here's a few more you might like:

1) Mahatma Gandhi often walked barefoot which produced an
impressive set of callouses on his feet. He also ate
very little making him rather frail and with his odd
diet he often suffered from bad breath.

This made him -
a super calloused fragile mystic hexed with halitosis.

2) A world wide survey was conducted by the United Nations.

The only question asked was:

"Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions
to the food shortage in the rest of the world?"

The survey was a huge failure.

a) In Africa they didn't know what "food" meant.
b) In Eastern Europe they didn't know what "honest" meant.
c) In Western Europe they didn't know what "shortage"meant.
d) In China they didn't know what "opinion" meant.
e) In the Middle East they didn't know what "solution"meant.
f) In South America they didn't know what "please"meant.
g) And in the USA they didn't know what "the rest of the world"
meant.

LEGO, no good making demands that I answer you questions, you are not the only racists who asks me questions on the forum, and answering is only voluntary at the best of times. Don't think I am posting a reply to you because you banged your shoe on the rostrum Khrushchev style.

"If you (Paul1405) think that racism is wrong, then you must think that all races are equal. That means you must think that they all have the same mental abilities, physical abilities, and personalities."

I do not equate equality to race, in my view all people are equal in value, white/black and in between, therefore all races are of equal value. Just as Nazi science "proved" Japanese were of the Aryan race, your proof that European devised IQ testing establishes a superior/inferior numerical index of humanity is just as flawed. All of us are of different mental and physical abilities, we all have different personalities that in itself does not reflect our worth as human beings. and therefore any notion of inequality. Just as Alfred Binet's European slanted IQ test is being used by white supremacists to prove the superiority of white over black, another equally biased test could be devised to show the direct opposite, all of such is worthless.

Just out of interest LEGO, where do you stand on Aryan race theory.