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OK, this is a subject very near and dear for me. My friends and I do this stuff ALL the time. My best friend and I are considered by most people to be the funniest two people in our school. We make jokes like this all the time. And I pull no punches. As Steve Martin said, "Comedy isn't pretty."
And it isn't. People who get offended just don't have a sense of humor, and I pity them. I come from a small southern town, and we have a black community in our town. The people from this community are very sensitive to racism, and rightly so, yet they all know me, and I'll crack racist jokes to them sometimes, and they don't get mad, because they know thats just me, and I don't mean any of it.
As previously stated, I'm a southerner, and that makes me HIGHLY susceptible to jokes and wisecracks. So I hear it a lot, hell, I make southern jokes myself. But a joke is a joke. I'm walking proof that stereotypes hold no ground. I'm a southerner with a fairly thick southern accent, yet I'm a very intelligent person, and I have no inbreeding in my family whatsoever. I don't even KNOW anyone who does. So there, just have a sense of humor people, the jokes don't mean anything.
Get over it.
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