Jive Turkey
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I know what you are saying, I just think "agree" might be the wrong word. Agree almost infers fact, I mean it is a joke and full of hyperbole and stereotype, so agree may be too strong of a word.
I can make a joke about how when I take off my shirt people have to put on sunglasses, now I would expect you to laugh, but for you to tell me you agree is a different thing.
I hope I'm making sense. I know it may seem like we're arguing semantics, but I do think it's a very important difference.
you're right. bad choice of word. I guess I see it like this. If you take the word ****** out of what hes saying, its really not all that offensive: There are racist people who think all black people are hooligans. The reality is that only a small percentage of black people are who the racists think they are and those people are tarnishing the rest's reputations (this can be said about any race. Theres always going to be a few doorknobs). Queue over the top stereotypes and hilarity ensues. That may be putting it very simply, but I think at the heart of the joke, thats the point hes trying to make. Its kind of sad to put it bluntly like that, to be honest. But I dont think to say hes at least partially right is all that offensive. I actually think it would be the opposite of being racist... But still, for a white guy to make that point and then to also include the word ****** would be inappropriate. So yes, I agree with you too.
But then the guy I was trying to stick up for drops an N bomb of his own and I look like an asshole