Burning Down

I think racist jokes are actually quite tasteless and not funny. Especially in this day and age when we are striving to become a more integrated, global society. Could be just me, though, but I think they're horribly inappropriate.

I also don't find jokes at the expense gay people, or trans* people, or women (or men) just to get some cheap laughs funny, for the same reasons. People are always going to make those jokes unfortunately, but it's better for me to ignore them.

Cuthbert

The way I see it, we're all going to die, may as well have a laugh while we're still here.

Burning Down

I don't see how that justifies laughing at the expense of somebody else. You can have a laugh I guess but I still think it's in bad taste.

Key

I don't understand how the title of this thread isn't ironic.

Cuthbert

lol thought the same tbh.

Key

^If I am making jokes about things that others would find offensive, it's not because I think low of whatever the joke is about, i'm socially awkward, so I try to add a bit of humor to a more or less awkward situation. Perhaps I go over the line, but for my own sake, to get people to laugh is the only way I can feel comfortable in the situation be it at work or in public. If people don't like that, it's their problem and not mine. I don't think I should be made to feel like crap for making a joke about something that somebody else gets offended by, especially if I don't know that person well enough to know that they get offended by it. Also take into consideration that a lot of people do respond well to certain types of jokes, and that just makes it easier to make the jokes, regardless of if they're offensive. They're jokes, they're meant to be taken lightly, never to be taken in seriousness, otherwise they wouldn't be jokes. If that makes me a horrible person, so be it.

djchameleon

You should be made to feel like crap but you could just not say it but you choose to say it because you don't give a fuck if it offends someone or not.

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Key

Because what's the point? If it offends somebody that I don't know very well, why should I feel obligated to feel bad about the joke that I said, especially when it's the type of humor that I say to my closer friends?

djchameleon

Why do you even have to say it to people you don't know just because you say it to closer friends?

__________________

Fame, fortune, power, titties. People say these are the most crucial things in life, but you can have a pocket full o' gold and it doesn't mean sh*t if you don't have someone to share that gold with. Seems simple. Yet it's an important lesson to learn. Even lone wolves run in packs sometimes.

Burning Down

I was going to ask the same thing!

I really try to stay as PC as possible with people that I don't know and especially with people that I'm trying to get to know. If someone I don't know that well starts cracking offensive or off colour jokes, it leaves a bad impression on me.