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Originally Posted by punky
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."
Shame it's a bit late to ask Richard Pryor about that one. Maybe ask Chris Rock?
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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.
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You talk as if Manning was some self-deprecating, nihilistic comedian. If you want to talk about exempt, please go ahead and find some footage of Manning mocking white people like he did other races. As far as i'm aware, the only demographic who were exempt were white, heterosexual males - himself and his core audience funnily enough. Now
that's patronising.