Does a single person here find this racist? My rant on my sociology class

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Azazel
For shame.

Now, what's wrong about Holocaust jokes?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Actually I think you may be more racist than the joke. It said NOTHING about cannibals!

Again: who honestly pictured the cannibals as being anything else than Blacks or Polynesians?

[Imran Siddiqui]

who honestly pictured the cannibals as being anything else than Blacks or Polynesians?

What cannibals?

[Az]

Originally posted by Oncle Boris


Now, what's wrong about Holocaust jokes?

What's wrong with jokes about genocide... lemme see..... everything?!

[Az]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui

who honestly pictured the cannibals as being anything else than Blacks or Polynesians?

What cannibals?

It's the broken phone meets monkeys in the cage classic. Or simply, not reading the actual first post in the thread.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Spiffor

Again: who honestly pictured the cannibals as being anything else than Blacks or Polynesians?

No one.

Again, Spiffor, knowing you're French, am I being racist because I picture you as a white caucasian male, even though I know you could bery well be Arab, Black, etc?

[Imran Siddiqui]

Or simply, not reading the actual first post in the thread.

Indeed. I wonder about all these people talking about cannibals. Where did they come from? Obviously the joke doesn't mention any.

[Whaleboy]

Racism is hatred, not taking the piss. If I took the piss out of black people out of joviality, I would be shot down by political correctness. If I make a statement based on some hatred then yes I would be racist but come on. We take the piss out of the Irish, the French etc.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Indeed. I wonder about all these people talking about cannibals. Where did they come from? Obviously the joke doesn't mention any.

Stop nitpicking. There may be no cannibals in the joke, but there is a tribe that we are picturing nevertheless.

[Az]

They're all racists, of course. ( Helping drive your implied point for you, Imran. are you happy now? )

[Imran Siddiqui]

Stop nitpicking. There may be no cannibals in the joke, but there is a tribe that we are picturing nevertheless.

It's not a nitpick. It is VERY telling. People on this thread consider any 'natives' in Africa or Polynesia to be cannibals. I think that speaks more for their racism than the joke's.

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
It's not a nitpick. It is VERY telling. People on this thread consider any 'natives' in Africa or Polynesia to be cannibals. I think that speaks more for their racism than the joke's.

No, the reason for this is that the teacher asked them to think about the word 'cannibal'. The word is located two lines above the joke, in the original post.

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
What cannibals?

Sorry I've just re-read the opening joke:

Who honestly pictured the natives playing Bunga-bunga as anything else than Black or Polynesians?

[Fake Boris]

Originally posted by Azazel
What's wrong with jokes about genocide... lemme see..... everything?!

I don't know. A joke is a chain of words. No one killed anybody to write it.

Is it going to change anything about what happened 60 years ago? Why is it that 'French surrender jokes' are so funny? Don't these bring back memories of the 30 years war, the death of the many poor French soldiers?

[Spiffor]

Originally posted by Imran Siddiqui
Indeed. I wonder about all these people talking about cannibals. Where did they come from?

The Imran's post I replied to.