Not funny.
Very funny
Made me ROR
Seriously, I make fun of my parents English all the time. When did people become so sensitive!
It’s time to drop those jokes.
Why? Since when did word pronunciation become offensive?
It’s all about context.
The potential to hurt someone is real, whether you personally “get that” or don’t. And it’s not about getting it or not; it’s about caring or not.
With the right context, of course joking about people’s accents and ways of speaking can happen and does.
I have someone very close to me who was cut deep by someone not-that-close-to-her repeatedly “joking” about her Asian accent. I didn’t immediately understand the depth of the hurt, but obviously it related to so much bulls*** I have not experienced. Yet her and I have laughed and made jokes about the way she speaks sometimes, because it happens in the context of fully respecting her (remembering respect is a verb, it has to be demonstrated, not just assumed - this is an old adage, not something new and woke, but conveniently forgotten by those who claim humans are somehow more sensitive these days).
It’s not that hard to joke about other stuff. You’re extremely funny @Clone_Hirdy - you can make heaps of things funny. Holding back on “Asian accent humour” unless you know the person well enough is not a great imposition on your freedom, and it might save some people a lot of hurt. Pretty simple.
Very nicely put.
At the end of the day, a joke is meant as a joke. If we ban every controversial topic, jokes will cease to exist and we will be worse off for it. Posting a joke like the one reboot posted is very different to making fun of someone to their face. That I understand can come across as bullying and can cause hurt. But this is not that at all. This is like having a go about Italians using their hands when they talk.
Bound to be a furry log amongst all those
Understand, but when the joke is, Ha ha has Asians can’t pronounce L, it’s just not funny and it’s not true either. That’s why I said it’s time to give it a rest.
Just to be clear, utterly no one is suggesting controversial topics are off limits for humour. That’s a straw man.
It’s just how we go about it, of course.
I get what you’re saying about “general” vs “to your face” humour, but disagree that the distinction is so great. People drive this forum. Sure, one Asian Blitzer might see it and think it’s funny; another might see it and have an internal stab and “this ■■■■ again” feeling. I think it’s good of there’s a “general” trend away from stuff that can legit hurt unless in the right context.
Edit and from my friend’s experience, how we pronounce things and are und stood by others, and how this gives those other people the “right” to treat you badly, is a deep and terrible thing compared to Italian gesticulations.
It’s a stereotype. A person can choose to be offended of just let it go. We make dumb jokes about blonde women and Irish people, we make sheep jokes about kiwi’s friends and we make paedophile jokes about priests. These can all offend, but in the context of a joke, they should just be ignored.
As I said, it starts by banning silly insensitive jokes like this one and the next thing you know, there is no jokes thread.
Im offended because I’m atheist