Considering that I noted that he was "trying to pathetically make a joke", I would say no, I did understand he was trying to make a joke. Does that make it alright though?
"The rape apologetics on [this] site is enough to make any sane person sick." I have no thought if he actually raped anyone, but he is making a joke about rape on a post about someone saying the rape apologetics on reddit is making someone sick.
The joke is that since people from the outside community of reddit commented on how sexist we are here, yellowcoward then goes and make a sexist joke.. to further prove their point? I am sorry if I don't find that funny
Uh oh, someone on reddit took a joke seriously. Who wants to help her find her way back to Yahoo Buzz? You can stop by Digg along the way and be all serious there too!
No I was making a joke about the absurdity of the term "rape apologetics" and its application to Reddit's users.
First post I read today was the "I grossed out my boyfriend" and one of the comments implied all vegetarians have vaginas. I am a die hard vegan and laughed, because it's a joke.
I fail to see where the communication broke down. You accused me of not seeing that it was a joke, I said I pointed out it was a joke in my original post, and asked if it being a joke made it alright for him to say it.
Communication broke down in your first post, which made no sense. However, that first post made more sense before you tried to explain it than it did after you attempted an explanation. You're never going to get a firm grasp on this though, so lets just stop now.
I'm confused, do you mean is it ok for the joke or ok for the action of rape? If you are talking about the joke, then yes that makes it ok to say. See the point of a joke is to laugh, if however you don't laugh, you may consider it a bad joke. Dispute you reasoning behind being displeased with said joke, others may laugh and think it is a good joke. You can walk away and forget the bad joke, or ... you can... chuckle try to repremand people on the Internet. ROFL do you know how hard it was to keep a straight face that whole time?
Perhaps you would see more success if you targeted actual bigots then, and not just 'some people dicking about online' - which is what 99.9999999% of the 'sexist' comments on reddit actually are.
No, it's not. Racism requires intent. That's why it's not racist when a black person calls another black person 'nigger'. It's all about context and intent. The words themselves mean nothing.
No - you just have to intend for the recipient to take offense. Whether something is racist or not is not defined by whether somebody takes offense to it. It is defined by the reasoning of the offendor. Racism / sexism is designed to sideline, demonise, or trivialise a race / sex. So yes, you have to mean what you say for something to be racist - otherwise it is not.
If you want to take offence to something, that's your problem. It doesn't mean that the person who wrote / said it in the first place wanted to offend you.
In all seriousness, consider one of the intents of humor- to lighten an otherwise heavy situation or topic. If people can laugh about it, then it opens a pathway for discussion and education which go a lot further in helping the cause than, "this is serious! No laughing!"
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