Quote Originally Posted by William Treseder View Post
I’m of mixed race, and after the reaction on here yesterday to a throw away quip I posted I’m not in the least bit surprised at today’s events.
It seems ok to joke about Ginger people, the Irish being thick, the Scots being tight, Jimmy Saville etc. We really are in danger of disappearing up our own arses.
Thousands of people would have got txts like that tweet on their phones.
The difference between attempted humour, and being a real hateful racist are oceans apart.
The difference is between those jokes you’ve highlighted (except the stupid Irish ones) is they’ve not been used for decades as a way to keep people of other races down and then say “it’s only a joke”. There’s a good reason you can’t tell a racist joke these days.

Also the problem is they aren’t funny any either, the people who complain about not being able to tell these shit jokes are people who are too stupid to be funny without it.