When did we lose the ability to laugh at ourselves?

PrintSmith wrote: Sorry Dog, I haven't seen the joke. I've been looking for it in the forum, but haven't located it yet. I'm gathering, due to the knee jerk default of "racism" being alleged, that it had something to do with topless black females appearing in NatGeo during a more innocent era of this nation's history, but I will admit I don't have the context.

The point that I was making was that humor is always at the expense of someone else. Even when a comedian is making themselves the target of the joke, the humor that results is felt by others at the expense of the comedian. The jokes I contributed have the stereotypes of the Irish as drunks and thieves as the central component of the joke. If someone who is neither Irish nor Catholic finds humor in them, why is that any different from a joke that stereotypes blacks, or Jews, or dumb blondes for that matter? Are some stereotypes allowed to be humorous and others excluded in your world? If so, on what basis? Are they not all stereotypes? Polish jokes, white Russian jokes. Mexican jokes, black jokes - the central component of all of them is the stereotype associated with each group. Either all are repulsive or none should be considered as such. Equal treatment, remember?

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So do you believe this is a "good" joke, or do you believe it was intended to be derogatory towards the First Lady by equating her as a racial stereotype of nude indigenous natives? Your fellow conservatives think it was just a "good" joke.

Excuse me, but this conservative finds it offensive in many ways. A$$es come in all political stripes.

A joke about Mrs Obama By a BLACK comedian the also compared them to Red Foxx and an Actress on that show Sanford and sons.
He was at the White house when he told these.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: A joke about Mrs Obama By a BLACK comedian the also compared them to Red Foxx and an Actress on that show Sanford and sons.
He was at the White house when he told these.

You would have to post the joke from that comedian....it's ok to make a joke about the first lady or the president, but to make a racist/sexist "joke" about her posing naked in any magazine is really poor taste....but nothing I haven't come to expect from those who hate our president and his family so deeply that nothing is too demeaning for them to say or post.

I'm sorry. Where did I say that only white people are racists? A racist joke is a racist joke no matter the race of the teller.

well he probably had an accident after his premier at the WhiteHouse so that is why we haven't heard more form him. LOL
Don't matter what color they are they are all POLITICIANS.

Martin Ent Inc wrote: Don't matter what color they are they are all POLITICIANS.

What does that have to do with demeaning the First Lady of the United States?

I think he meant all "those people" are all POLITICIANS. He was being racist again.

Geez all, get your panties straightend out. That wad cannot be that comfortable. It seems to me that a sense of humor is about all we have left.

I assume you did not mean me - my last comment was a good joke, IMO.