Why is this racist?

Another statement of fact but nothing to do with the joke.
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I think it might actually have something to do with the joke, for some reason, I don't think it would work if they said a white guy walked into a bar with a parrot on his shoulder etc. I think the fact that his parrot answers is basically saying that "them" are in abundance in africa, I can sort of see the link between that and slavery, but it's definitely not explicit, and totally down to intepretation.
 
I got warned off a copper for calling someone black. I was going to stand and argue semantics with the guy, about the use of adjectives, but he had CS gas. Apparently you have to infer inheritance, i.e. "African-American, African-Carribean" or whatever.
 
Well it's a rubbish joke, maybe it's more offensive talking about a black man because of a tenuous link to slavery. They're both jokes that deserve to die a horrible death because the very idea behind them belongs to the past.

I'm surprised by a written warning but if you're in a working environment where that's a possibility then I think telling jokes like is asking for it.
 
I got warned off a copper for calling someone black. I was going to stand and argue semantics with the guy, about the use of adjectives, but he had CS gas. Apparently you have to infer inheritance, i.e. "African-American, African-Carribean" or whatever.
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That's ridiculous. How the hell are you supposed to know where someone originated from by looking at their skin?
 
jdickerson said:
I got warned off a copper for calling someone black. I was going to stand and argue semantics with the guy, about the use of adjectives, but he had CS gas. Apparently you have to infer inheritance, i.e. "African-American, African-Carribean" or whatever.
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That's ridiculous.

Am I to be called white-Finnish-British-(but via Australia along the way)-then-probably-German-or-Norwegian-before-that?
 
jdickerson said:
I got warned off a copper for calling someone black. I was going to stand and argue semantics with the guy, about the use of adjectives, but he had CS gas. Apparently you have to infer inheritance, i.e. "African-American, African-Carribean" or whatever.
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So do we have to be called Anglo-Saxons? What if they've been living in England for generations; African-Anglos? African-English?

People are gay.
 
Samione said:
That's ridiculous. How the hell are you supposed to know where someone originated from by looking at their skin?
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Hence my argument. I wouldn't mind but I was leaving a statement after witnessing a car crash. I said something along the lines of "The black driver stopped at the lights and the other car smashed into the back of it". He then said I'll warn you now, you can't refer to the gentleman as black. So I thought **** it and left.
 
so if a coloured person was to tell the same joke, just using the words white man and the parrot coming from say england would this then still be racist??
 
Stinky said:
so if a coloured person was to tell the same joke, just using the words white man and the parrot coming from say england would this then still be racist??
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It would still be equally as stupid and unfunny but yes, if the first is racist then that version should also be. Except there is no tenuous connection to slavery in that amended version - if indeed that was present or intended in the original.
 
its because the first ones has conations with slavery whilst the second one does not, thats the way i read it anyway. If thats not what the joke intended then its not even a joke and just a bit pointless
 
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But that has what to do with Stinky's version where it is an Englishman? If you want to pick apart the amended version by Ste_Bla's supervisor then please feel free but I was replying to Stinky only there, hence my quoting him.
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i have never unstood why.... a white man calling a black person black is racist. but the other way around seems to be fine.
 
At Uni we were told the PC snots had said we were not allowed to use the term brainstorm anymore, reason, it may be offensive to epileptics, they said we had to say thought shower.I thought the only time you might have a thought shower would be if the person next to you were shot through the head and you got covered in their brains (containing the thoughts they had that instant).

Duh! on that note would it be offensive to use the term well-done when asking for steak?, one of the other people in the eaterie may be a vitim of burns. Or how about wanting black coffee? a person nearby maybe of african origin.

I think some of the PC brigade must lay awake just thinking of the weakest link they possibly could to say, "hey that's a no no, you can't say that it might be offensive or is offensive".

Ban political correctness, bring back commonsense, respect where it is due and good manners.
 
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Stinky said:
i have never unstood why.... a white man calling a black person black is racist. but the other way around seems to be fine.
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Traditionally it hasn't been an insult to call someone a white man, the same is not true of many epithets applied to black men. Sure there are some derogatory terms that can be applied to whites but by and large they are less common.

As far as I'm concerned people can call me whatever they like but I can easily understand why some people get offended by terms directed towards them.
 
Some people read too much into jokes sometimes, and can be hyper sensitive. When I worked in a bank call centre, I was once told that I was racist because I said that our customer service department was run by monkeys. Apparantly that's racist because monkey have black faces :confused:. Incidentally, the girl who went nuts at me over it was from Ghana.
 
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