One Mans Reaction to racial slur on Survivor Series

[Pete]

Originally Posted by Funky Fly First of all, I already said that non-white racists exist too. See the first line of my last post. Second, "Guess Who" is a remake of "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" (which by the way, was released in 1967, when it was somewhat more relevant) with the roles reversed.

Yes I am aware of it being a remake, I would argue that is less relevant today though acceptably exoressed attitudes towards minorities by whites was very different then (note ACCEPTABLY, I'm not saying racism doesn't exist just that to exporess it publicly is far less acceptable) whereas minority to white racism is still funny, its still making a joke out of racism whihc doesn;t really strike me as progress

[Funky Fly]

Originally Posted by Pete Yes I am aware of it being a remake, I would argue that is less relevant today though acceptably exoressed attitudes towards minorities by whites was very different then (note ACCEPTABLY, I'm not saying racism doesn't exist just that to exporess it publicly is far less acceptable) whereas minority to white racism is still funny, its still making a joke out of racism whihc doesn;t really strike me as progress

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.

[Pete]

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.

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