3/23 True Southern Comedy of the Day:
McCallister, Oklahoma: The presiding judge in the Oklahoma trial
against Terry Nichols (already serving a life sentence on Federal
charges) stormed onto the bench an hour late yesterday and berated
the prosecution because 3 of the jurors were related to one of the
prosecutors. Said a representative for the prosecution, "dang, I
s'pose you'd like to try'n find 12 people in Oklahoma that warn't
relations?" (--via NPR)
\_ McNichols?
\_ I forgot to celebrate St Patrick's day and I'm compensating.
\_ He's being brought to McJustice
\_ What a knee slapper! Those hicks in flyover country sure do make
great targets for vicious humor! Thank g-d they're all white
because talking like that about anyone else would be racist!
\_ How is this racist? It's just a judge making fun of people
in Oklahoma.
\_ 1) it wasn't the judge, 2) it was npr, 3) i question if it
happened at all or was taken out of context. It's just more
of npr's holier than thou bullshit.
\_ Actually, the judge stormed up to the bench and berated
the prosecution for this. The prosecution did not make
the aformentioned remark concerning relations. Neither
did NPR. All dubious comments were added by the op for
questionable humorous effect.
\_ Ok, so the racism is home grown on the motd. Thanks
for clarifying that. I wasn't able to find it on the
web.
\_ Anytime. Gotta ask, though: have you ever really
listened to NPR? If you have, where do you get the
idea that they would even broadcast something like
this?
\_ I don't think it's racist to make fun of your own race. Since
whites are the majority, anonymous posts can be assumed to be
white people unless there is evidence to the contrary. I'm not
offended by that joke, but if it was written by a non-white I
might be a little offended. --Whitey
\_ "White" is too broad. So many people count as whites, from
nordics to mediterranean people to slavs and arabs and jews.
Clearly these groups don't all identify with each other.
But regardless of race, we can all make fun of poor rural
hicks.
\_ At Berkeley, especially in CS, you can assume it was written
by an Asian and in any event it is *not* okay to make racist
remarks about *anyone*. And in this case, even if it was a
white on white attack, it is still an insult to people in the
mid-west because "we're better than they are, they're just a
bunch of racist white ignorant inbred christians!" which is
exactly the sort of label that no one else would or should
have to tolerate or accept. If blacks were 51% of the
population would you think calling them all niggers was ok?
I suspect not.
\_ I didn't say it's OK to make fun of the majority. I said
it's OK to make fun of your own race, and that when
someone's race is unknown, it's reasonable to assume they
belong to the majority. --Whitey
\_ That's fine. The assumption here should still be
Asian and making fun of your own race is not ok because
it only furthers stereotypes and hurts not only your
race (stupid word but I'll go with it) but people of
other races by reinforcing their ignorance as well.
\_ I gather that you are an asian, but let me tell you there
are plenty of whites in CS and you refuse to notice.
\_ It's simple math. He said whites are a majority and
therefore (his logic) it is ok to say hateful things
about whites. I've already responded to the second part
about all racism=bad. Here's the math part: whites are
not the majority. Asians are. Thus his assumption that
a white was writing the post based solely on the numbers
is incorrect. Anyway, why the hell do I have to tell
*anyone* from Berkeley that racism is bad? There is no
such thing as *good* racism. Why the heavy handed
insistence that some kinds of racism are ok for various
random 'reasons'? Go find something that is actually
funny without abusing someone for merely being different
from you. |