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Racist "prom-posal"

Discussion in 'Sports and News' started by Dick Whitman, Apr 24, 2018.

  1. lakefront

    lakefront Well-Known Member

    I like that one. I still say retarded in my own house. I don't use them in public because they are unacceptable. But in my own house when i say them I NEVER ONCE MEAN TO SAY A GAY PERSON OR A MENTALLY CHALLENGED PERSON. The words literally mean what I want them to mean. In public it is a different story.
     
  2. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    *Record scratch*

    I don’t think this is what any of us are talking about. This is akin to arguing you can use the n-word in the privacy of your own home, damn it!
     
    JC likes this.
  3. justgladtobehere

    justgladtobehere Well-Known Member

    Agree. It should read "If I were black."
     
  4. JC

    JC Well-Known Member

    So why say them at all? You dropping N bombs around your house as well?
     
  5. TyWebb

    TyWebb Well-Known Member

    It's also a dangerous game to play. That kind of "home" language can easily sneak into public language if one has been, oh I don't know, drinking all day and cracking jokes with mixed company.
     
  6. garrow

    garrow Well-Known Member

    Can't wait to see the France state dinnerposals that will be popping up on Reddit and Breitbart soon.
     
  7. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    Although I am not personally offended by the joke in the intro, Pierce's analysis of it is nonsensical.
    Not one of his better pieces.
     
  8. Dick Whitman

    Dick Whitman Well-Known Member

    "What I can't figure out," Tiger Woods asks Vincent, the limo driver, "is why so many good-looking women hang around baseball and basketball. Is it because, you know, people always say that, like, black guys have big dicks?"
     
  9. Stoney

    Stoney Well-Known Member

    And all three trends are driven by social media.

    It's The Truman Show for everyone nowadays. Gotta perform for that audience.
     
    I Should Coco likes this.
  10. Buck

    Buck Well-Known Member

    There is no longer an accounting for context or intent.
    Although in this case it is a long stretch to consider that there is an appropriate context or intent for this 'joke.'

    If the joker believes that the humor lies in the joke's 'outrageousness' the joker inherently understands that there will be 'outrage.'
     
  11. QYFW

    QYFW Well-Known Member

    BLASPHEMER!
     
  12. Songbird

    Songbird Well-Known Member

    Sister Jean agrees! Oh wait, not the same Sister Jean.

     
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