racist jokes = racist ?

Dave Chapelle jokes on everyone anyway.

Also, some of you need to stop acting like racism goes one way. I've seen both sides of the coin so it's harder for me to generalize without laughing at myself.

I don't think that's true, and I've never heard someone muttering about "fewer white people". Then again, most of the people I talk to are intelligent and above that sort of stupid comments.


And I don't think Dave Chapelle's jokes are really racist, they might be playing with racial expectations but he's making fun of the attitudes, not the people. A black person making fun of a white person isn't automatically making a racist joke, and if that's how you see it then I guess we just disagree.

If you take jokes by Chapelle, replace "white" with "black," and make Chapelle himself white, then those jokes are really racist. People like Jesse Jackson get on teh white community's ass for way less than that. Making fun of white people is "all in good fun," and it's ok for black people to say stuff like "nigger," but the moment whitey says it, he's a bigot, and any black people present are justified in beating him up. By the way, I HAVE heard "too many white people around." Two Sisters said it in the office where I worked, within earshot of me. Lots of other crap like that has happened to me. Those black bigots then go out of my office and whine how they're discriminated against. I mean, I had a black waiter the other day while waiting in a restaruant while my car got fixed, I tipped him 20% because he was nice. If I am buying at a CVS and the clerk is black, I'll say "thiank you and have a nice day" like to anyone else. But when it comes to these inner-city hoodlums touting their rights and acting all badass, fuuck 'em. I am not going to be bullied by their hypocrisy.

If you take jokes by Chapelle, replace "white" with "black," and make Chapelle himself white, then those jokes are really racist.

Is there some other Dave Chapelle? Cause I don't think changing black to white would make them offensive.

Is there some other Dave Chapelle? Cause I don't think changing black to white would make them offensive.

I think hes' referring to the way people react towards the way the jokes would be percieved if the target of the joke was reversed. If that makes any sense.

Example (I think?)
A group of guys are standing around telling jokes.
A black guy is telling jokes about white, yellow, pink, blue people and everyone has a good laugh and couldnt care less.
Now the Pink guy speaks up and tells a joke about black people, everyone except the black guy laughs at it and after the event the black guy goes on the offensive calling the others racists for laughing at such a joke even after the he has just been stood there making jokes about everyone else.

Possibly irrelevent and useless but I think thats' kind of what Quantact is getting at.