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Originally Posted by Stuart
Ask yourself. How would you feel if someone made fun of you and your disabled son on primetime national TV?
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I won't like it but there is a big difference between not liking something and trying to ban people from saying it or punishing it.
Likeminded people should be able to share like-minded jokes. I refer you back to Ignition's excellent and succinct comment: "Freedom of speech should always trump peoples' sense of offense."
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Originally Posted by Maggy J
Really?Even to making racist jokes?
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Shame it's a bit late to ask Richard Pryor about that one. Maybe ask Chris Rock?
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Originally Posted by Pierre
I find that I can't stand the hypocrisy of modern "comedians"
As they all sing in one voice in opposition in regards to so called "racist" comedians such as Bernard manning and alike.
I personally found Bernard Manning quite funny, and as I recall I never heard him take the piddle out of mentally handicapped people ala messrs Carr and Boyle.
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The thing is that any ethnic minorities that knew or met Bernard Manning knew he wasn't racist. He did so much to help people of all backgrounds in his local area around Manchester.
Making a joke about an ethnic minority doesn't make you racist. To deliberately exempt ethnic minoroties from jokes because of the colour of their skin always seemed rather patronising to me.