Question:
Why aren't white people allowed to joke about other races?
2014-06-21 23:50:29 UTC
I'm being honest here, is it because deep down inside we're universally viewed as the ideal race? Because it seems like every race can joke about eachother except white people. It reminds me of how if you're beautiful, you're pretty much forced to be humble or else everyone thinks you're a jerk. Am I off or?..
Fourteen answers:
Pancho
2014-06-22 00:09:21 UTC
A Black man can make jokes or racial slurs about White people. And no one notices or perhaps people will laugh. Many years ago, a very vulgar Black comic by the name of "Redd Foxx" made this joke: "Ain't nuthin' uglier than a 90-year-old White woman!" People laughed. But if a White comic were to make the same joke about a 90-year-old Black woman, his (or her) career would come to a sudden end. He'd be accused of "hate" and "racism" and would likely be barred from performing at certain places or at all places. It's time to turn this trend around and become normal again because as i understand it, White people can be fined and jailed if they make "racist" comments about Blacks in public. And when laws like that are passed, guess what happens? Resentment begins to grow. I've watched resentment against Blacks (from Whites) grow increasingly intense due to these laws, due to the double-standard. Is the government trying to instigate a race war? I wonder? Because that may be the answer to your question. I don't know, but i do wonder about it. And I don't believe that I'm the only one wondering ...
2014-06-22 08:05:39 UTC
Who's stopping you beside yourself holding you down and other white man involved in politics. Minorities don't care so stop playing the race card.
2014-06-22 08:48:00 UTC
because throughout history, white people have always done wrong to other groups. they've always been the ones with power. the ones who enslaved, raped, abused, and killed people of color.



white people like to throw out that PoC are racist, and that's not true in the least. racism is systematic oppression that takes advantage of people of color economically, politically and socially and the ones who established this racism are the ones with power: white people. as long as white people are running things and are the ones in charge of how everything is run, there will never be actual racism against white people. prejudice, sure. but not racism.



and the jokes we make are almost never as bad as those said by white people to black people, for example. making fun of white girls for going to Starbucks is hardly an insult. we're poking fun of their "stereotypes" but that's nowhere near as bad as seeing a black girl in her teens and saying "I wonder how many kids she has". it's an entirely different animal.



it's because white people have always told us we were wrong or bad or less than simply for being who we are. still to this day, i face racism from white people on almost a daily basis. but white people never really will, so the jokes we make will never be as hard hitting as those said to us by white people.
Loog5R
2014-06-22 06:02:55 UTC
They do over here.



I don't know what it's like in the states..
?
2014-06-22 01:56:10 UTC
Yes
Alex
2014-06-22 10:19:37 UTC
What are you talking about. They do it all the time where I live right in front of the people they make fun of. Over here they also get away with it too.
?
2014-06-22 03:03:16 UTC
My friends joke about Black ppl or say things but I don't get mad. And I don't joke about white people b/c most of my friends are White.
PanamericanistaM0R3Na
2014-06-22 02:53:00 UTC
You are. It's called media.
sbbb l
2014-06-22 01:14:45 UTC
all the time



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VCpeaXTUGS0



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnX-bIpcsa4
2014-06-22 00:37:43 UTC
They are the majority and they are the race that had slaves
?
2014-06-22 03:15:30 UTC
They do, i dont know what you are on about. Its that white people tend to take it too far or say out of line things. One joke and leave it at that. I have a friend he biracial but thinks he is white he and his white friends ALWAYS sit about telling black jokes.



Their humour about racism is crazy - yesterday my friend made a joke about starving Asian children - Some dont think before they speak. Other races dont have a history of trying to eliminate or enslave whole races, that too makes it harder for people to see it as a joke. I wish people would stop coming on trying to do the whole white people are the real victims bs. You had an experience, got hurt and now are taking it out of hand.
?
2014-06-22 01:19:40 UTC
Ummm....Kevin James jokes about Black people all the time on his show King of Queens. So does Adam Sandler, Will Ferrel, Channing Tatum, and many stand up comics. The difference between them or those who are ostracized is simply that they are funny. If it's funny, no one minds. If it is hateful and divisive then no one thinks that's funny (except for the racists).

Not only is that cold...but it's deep too! (Of you get me)
?
2014-06-22 00:22:05 UTC
maybe because they're already too racist.
?
2014-06-21 23:55:48 UTC
Other races can't joke about other races...


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