Is the phrase 'Jap Camp' racist? (user search)
       |           

Welcome, Guest. Please login or register.
Did you miss your activation email?
June 17, 2024, 01:26:48 AM
News: Election Simulator 2.0 Released. Senate/Gubernatorial maps, proportional electoral votes, and more - Read more

  Talk Elections
  General Politics
  Individual Politics (Moderator: The Dowager Mod)
  Is the phrase 'Jap Camp' racist? (search mode)
Pages: [1]
Poll
Question: ?
#1
Yes
 
#2
No
 
Show Pie Chart
Partisan results

Total Voters: 26

Author Topic: Is the phrase 'Jap Camp' racist?  (Read 1410 times)
Reginald
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 802
« on: July 28, 2012, 01:51:10 AM »

People are too uncomfortable with these kinds of things. Why can't people just laugh about a silly slogan once in a while? It's like no one has a sense of humor anymore. No one is advocating slavery, segregation, or voting discrimination. Let's laugh and poke fun at each other. Nothing is better than humor for bringing people together.

Unless, of course, you're a member of a group being insulted.

If it's done in an insulting way such as Obama referring to us as clinging to our guns and bibles. People need to learn how to have fun and joke. Rarely are racial jokes meant to be insulting. Even more rare do those who tell the jokes not apologize for being offensive. Democrats use race as a way to get votes and that's the real problem.

Yikes... care to elaborate at all? What in your opinion makes something insulting? You are obviously capable of being offended yourself. Due to your noted tendency to platitudes, your argument lacks depth and citation (among other things...)
Logged
Reginald
Jr. Member
***
Posts: 802
« Reply #1 on: July 28, 2012, 02:11:06 AM »

People are too uncomfortable with these kinds of things. Why can't people just laugh about a silly slogan once in a while? It's like no one has a sense of humor anymore. No one is advocating slavery, segregation, or voting discrimination. Let's laugh and poke fun at each other. Nothing is better than humor for bringing people together.

Unless, of course, you're a member of a group being insulted.

If it's done in an insulting way such as Obama referring to us as clinging to our guns and bibles. People need to learn how to have fun and joke. Rarely are racial jokes meant to be insulting. Even more rare do those who tell the jokes not apologize for being offensive. Democrats use race as a way to get votes and that's the real problem.

Yikes... care to elaborate at all? What in your opinion makes something insulting? You are obviously capable of being offended yourself. Due to your noted tendency to platitudes, your argument lacks depth and citation (among other things...)

I don't need citation to explain what offends me. What offends me is people not thinking. We're all capable of being insulted. There is no line of insulting and not insulting. Everyone feels differentlyl. I'm not playing into a game of defining a line.

Absolutely, everyone is insulted by different things. Which is why I find this to be just a tad presumptuous (and what I was primarily wanting you to explain):

Rarely are racial jokes meant to be insulting.

Logged
Pages: [1]  
Jump to:  


Login with username, password and session length

Terms of Service - DMCA Agent and Policy - Privacy Policy and Cookies

Powered by SMF 1.1.21 | SMF © 2015, Simple Machines

Page created in 0.028 seconds with 15 queries.