Is this joke racist?

[Ecthy]

Some of you guys are weird... this joke is damn funny, and I don't know about "tasteless".

And who is Esko Aho?

[Stefu]

Esko Aho? I might try that! Still, that's the way I first heard (or was it read?) it, and that's the way it stays.

[-=Vagrant=-]

Esko Aho.

http://virtual.finland.fi/elections/president2000/english/aho.html

A politician, need I say more?

[Ecthy]

nm

[Mihai]

Originally posted by Stefu
Umm, that doesn't work so well, does it? After all, how do you tell a Romanian from a Hungarian without hearing them?

You can't, but we don't have too many blacks. Anyway, I am sure that some guys tell the joke with a gipsy in the role. And you can tell apart a gipsy from a non-gipsy.

[Stefu]

Of course, that short page can't tell everything possible about our beloved Esko Aho. (Well, technically he is beloved, if you count only middle-aged male farmers who go to church 3 times a week and fear that homosexual immigrants sent by EU are coming to take their farm subsidies away.)

Only good thing about Esko Aho is that he isn't Paavo Väyrynen. But I really shouldn't swear like that with minors present.

[Ecthy]

Paavo is also the first name of one of the Apocalpytica guys.

do you like them, Finns?

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Stefu


Umm, that doesn't work so well, does it? After all, how do you tell a Romanian from a Hungarian without hearing them?

Well, I guess that answers your question - it's a rascist joke.

It's not like rascism is ever logical in the first place, so technicalities like that don't matter - all that matters in the 'joke' is that you get to hear about your least favorite ethnicity being run over by a car multiple times.


Although I agree that jokes about rascism aren't inheritely rascist - this isn't one of those jokes. This joke is not about rascism, it's just an excuse to have whoever you hate run over by a car.

Besides, it's not funny anyways.

[Stefu]

Well, I guess that answers your question - it's a rascist joke.

Umm, that's not what I meant.

What I meant is that Hungarians and Romanians look similar, so racist auto-drivers couldn't make decisions like "Hmm, there's a Romanian, I'll drive over him once" and "Hmm, there's a Hungarian, I'll drive over him multiple times".

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Stefu


Umm, that's not what I meant.

What I meant is that Hungarians and Romanians look similar, so racist auto-drivers couldn't make decisions like "Hmm, there's a Romanian, I'll drive over him once" and "Hmm, there's a Hungarian, I'll drive over him multiple times".

Exactly - technicalities like that don't matter in a rascist joke, the person just wants to hear about hungarians being run over.

[Kirnwaffen]

My opinion: if it's funny, it doesn't count. That was funny.

[Stefu]

Well, I might not have payed attention to that if I had just been told the joke. I was just idly wondering about it after seeing Mihai telling about it.

And anyway, how can you tell it isn't a funny joke? You can't very well give a joke an universal funniness quotient - some people see some jokes as funny and others see other jokes as funny. Maybe it's just you perceiving it as racist and thus deciding it isn't funny.

[General Ludd]

Originally posted by Stefu
And anyway, how can you tell it isn't a funny joke? You can't very well give a joke an universal funniness quotient - some people see some jokes as funny and others see other jokes as funny. Maybe it's just you perceiving it as racist and thus deciding it isn't funny.

All I'm saying is that I don't find it funny, regardless of it being rascist or not.

[Stefu]

Well, I can dig that.

It's really a joke that needs to be told in person.

[KrazyHorse]

Would have been funnier if it had been two comrade workers and a capitalist.