![]() Surprising but good to know for the future. Since only a few of us had a problem with the GB joke, I guess that would mean most of The GB is actually very very right wing. Seriously though 1/3 of America feels the whole thing was overblown and it was a just a joke. I guess Roseanne didn't know the magic words in this type of situation is Monty Pyton. When we had something similar happen on the GB last month I was treated like I was a lunatic for thinking the originator of the joke should apologize. Even though she apologized and is an actual comedian. Even though her reboot television show Roseanne has a #1 rating and was making millions of dollars she was immediately fired by ABC Television Network and her show was dropped. The comedian Roseanne Barr the other night on Twitter posted a racist hate joke. Some interesting stuff going on the past couple days in the news. ![]() I find both jokes very offensive.īob F - Sorry Bob, but if you think the GB comment (old man weak and offensive humor) was in the same league as what Barr wrote then you migh qualify - not as a lunatic - but as someone that doesn’t get boundaries or false equivalencies. JQ, you're a great writer so please explain why one joke you find offensive and the other not. ![]() What mystifies me is I never got to hear either joke so remain in the dark as to how offensive they were! So I think that the lack of knowledge is part of it." And this is whether you're talking about anti-Semitism, whether you're talking about racism, whether you're talking about homophobia. "First of all, a lack of awareness of the past desensitizes you to what a comment, what a derogatory remark can mean or what it's part of. This article is very significant to what I'm talking about. I'm sure it's the same in other countries. Here's an interesting article about how the Holocaust is fading from people's memory in America. Do you think she should be allowed to use the old people card? ![]() It is a racist remark, but has no element of humour, even to a twisted sense of humour. Saw the Roseanne one, but don’t See which bit is a ‘joke’. ABC did the right thing in pulling the plug. Peter V: You're right - not a joke, but a racist insult. ![]()
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