Is This Actually Offensive?

[TARPD]

2 sharks swimming round the atlantic. one says "i'm sick of tuna lets go to morecombe and get chinese"

[DanB]

I guess so but

[TARPD]

that winterton bird just got sacked for telling this joke. apparently its racist, i dont think it is but it may be offensive to the families who lost people in morcombe

[Sparkle1984]

It most certainly is offensive, and I'm glad that woman got sacked for saying it. I beg to disagree with TARPD. People in high positions should not talk like that. I do not find it funny in the slightest.

It would be considered unacceptable to make a joke about September 11th, for example, so why do some people find it funny to make jokes about Chinese people dying? Something to do with race?

[TARPD]

Originally posted by Sparkle1984@27 February 2004 - 21:48
It most certainly is offensive, and I'm glad that woman got sacked for saying it. I beg to disagree with TARPD. People in high positions should not talk like that. I do not find it funny in the slightest.

It would be considered unacceptable to make a joke about September 11th, for example, so why do some people find it funny to make jokes about Chinese people dying? Something to do with race?

i never said it was funny, i just dont think its racist

[Agrajag]

Originally posted by Sparkle1984@27 February 2004 - 21:48
It most certainly is offensive, and I'm glad that woman got sacked for saying it. I beg to disagree with TARPD. People in high positions should not talk like that. I do not find it funny in the slightest.

It would be considered unacceptable to make a joke about September 11th, for example, so why do some people find it funny to make jokes about Chinese people dying? Something to do with race?

I agree.

[JONNO_CELEBS]

I agree Sparkle, I've heard about 8 different jokes, same as after Di died , all the jokes came flooding, I never really did think any of them were funny.

Is that one racist?

Yes, it refers to Chinese people as food produce and would offend any one of them, therefore it's racist

NATIONAL FRONT LIVES ON KLF!!!

Seek hiel

I'm kidding ok

Jonno B)

[mrcall1969]

I do find it offensive, more so for mocking the dead than being racist

[TARPD]

its not derogatory towards chinese people. its a joke about a small group of people who happen to be chinese

[Busyman]

What about this?

2 gay men are in a bathtub together.

One sees something floating in the tub.

The says, "Why did you spit in the tub?"

The other says, "I didn't...........I just farted."