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Mondak · 07-16-2003, 08:23 PM

Wrong. They hurt people.

I was sitting in a hot tub a couple years ago near Mammoth California. This was a natural hot tub in the wilderness so that means there were no lights. It was a big tub and there were a lot of people in it drinking and telling stories. When the subject turned to jokes, one gal decided to tell the "how do you keep a N**** out of your backyard . . . " joke. My stomach was in my throat. I brought my friend Blair on the trip with me. He is black and he was hurt by the joke. She said she was sorry and could not tell in the light that he was black. The obvious question becomes: Is it then okay to tell those jokes when noone from the target audience is around? The answer is no. I felt like crap and decided no matter how funny they seem, there is never a time to tell those jokes where it is okay.

Just don't do it. Eventually the hurt people and you telling them just continues the idiocy.

07-16-2003, 08:23 PM	#4 (permalink)
Mondak Industrialist Location: Southern California	Wrong. They hurt people. I was sitting in a hot tub a couple years ago near Mammoth California. This was a natural hot tub in the wilderness so that means there were no lights. It was a big tub and there were a lot of people in it drinking and telling stories. When the subject turned to jokes, one gal decided to tell the "how do you keep a N**** out of your backyard . . . " joke. My stomach was in my throat. I brought my friend Blair on the trip with me. He is black and he was hurt by the joke. She said she was sorry and could not tell in the light that he was black. The obvious question becomes: Is it then okay to tell those jokes when noone from the target audience is around? The answer is no. I felt like crap and decided no matter how funny they seem, there is never a time to tell those jokes where it is okay. Just don't do it. Eventually the hurt people and you telling them just continues the idiocy. __________________ All truth passes through three stages: First it is ridiculed Second, it is violently opposed and Third, it is accepted as self-evident. ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER (1788-1860)