akuma587 said:
I'm not even really sure what the Obama bucks comment was. You'll have to fill me in. If I was a racist, then this would be a bigger deal. Personally I don't mind if people IN A REGULAR SOCIAL SETTING (not party officials, etc.) make racist jokes if they aren't actually intending them to be racist but just intending that they be funny. Obviously if they are around a lot of people they don't know they should be a little bit more careful so that they don't offend anyone (kind of like I did). Racist remarks can also be an effective hyperbole, like as nervous as a black guy in the middle of a Klan meeting. Mine was intended to be something along these lines. I'm not one of those Democrats who thinks everything people say has to be politically correct. If someone wants to make jokes about white people and they don't have any ill intent, I could care less. Even if they did I would probably laugh about it. My remark could have been interpreted as racist (frankly I had never even heard of comrade_toyva's interpretation of what I said as a racist remark) but I didn't intend it to be racist. I'm not a public official, so its not like I'm going to create a media firestorm. I just understand that in a political setting you have to really just not even try to make a racist joke. Its like pouring gasoline all over yourself and playing with matches to try and get a laugh. Nothing good is going to happen. |
It was just another one of the many fabricated stories about Jews that went around, especially during the middle ages. Another one was the whole Jews killing Christians to makes matzos and wine on Pesach....
I don't mind if you make a mistake, I'll never hold a grudge against you... Everybody says something at some point that they wish they wouldn't have said. We're all human, so no worries.
But, I will say that whether you say something racist behind a pulpit in front of the media, or just privately to one of your friends, not one action is worse than the other. Both are equal in stupidity.
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