Sunday, January 21, 2007

Source of humour

I know, perhaps I was a little harsh on an earlier entry about young Indians. Nope, not that I have started receiving hate mail.

But do you notice that humour that has race, religious and rights as its source usually is discriminatory in nature.

Like if it's a joke about slant-eyed Chinese, it's ok if its told by a Chinese but you'd be called a racist if you are not.

Or some jokes about Christians and Jews and Muslims. Just look at what happened to Christians (or Danish) who make light of the Muslims? Christians themselves can parody their own religious symbols for all they want.

And what about gay jokes? We must be careful never to mistake a pro-gay stance as pro-choice or progressive.

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