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Originally Posted by OneToughHerring
I don't mind jokes about Finns either. We are so ignored in the world stage anyway. 
But, if anyone was offended by the more offending jokes in the start of this thread, I apologize too. I posted them to see if I could somehow define the border between good and bad humour, it is a pretty vague border sometimes especially in ethnic humour. Two wrongs don't make a right but one wrong is bad too.
antikristuseke,
and yes to an extent I am in favour of 'complete' freedom of speech and humour as a safety valve to use to laugh at the demons of racism etc. If the worlds medias would offer equal criticism and praise to everyone regardless of race and creed etc. then yes, I would be in favour of it. Until that happens attention has to be kept on things such as rights of minorities. |
finally something we agree on
One thing I'd like to add, is that the definition of good or bad humor often depends on the people you're talking with. For example, with most of my friends being white and central-right, I can easily make jokes about moroccans, turks etc. (just to name the most prominent minorities in the Netherlands) and most of them would find it good humor. If I had lots of morrocan/turkish friends most of them would probably consider it bad humor.
I guess with so many different nationalities/races/whatever here on subsim, one has to be extra careful not to offend somebody.
(that said, it's very hard to offend absolutely
nobody in this world if you make jokes about these things, but I'd say, keep it to a respectable level - e.g. when talking about jews don't make jokes about the holocaust
)