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Originally Posted by Funky Fly
We should be able to laugh at each other with no harm and no foul on either side, but the problem with white to not white race jokes is that there are so many historically racist undertones perceived, even when the joker doesn't intend for them to be there. You're basically walking on eggshells if you tell jokes like that and you're white. And the funny thing is, a white person can tell a black joke to a black person he knows very well and not worry about repercussion because the black person understands that despite the joke being deprecating to him, he knows the white person is not a racist and therefore does not actually believe the content of the joke to be acceptable in a non-joking situation. But if that same white person tells that same joke to a black person he's only just met, the black may be offended because he doesn't know if that white person truly believes in the content of the joke.
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I agree 100% with that, I think what bothers me is the fact that is is more acceptable for non whites to tell white jokes on screen or in mass circulated media because I don't know what their intentions are becasue I don't know them and that its somehow unacceptable for me to feel uncomfortable because of it