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Originally Posted by Omahan
You couldn't get a lynch mob started in the KC forums so you decided to drag it onto this forum. Yeah, real classy.
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I see that the president of the Good Ole' Boys club, The Gentleman from the Great State of Nebraska, has shown up trying to save regional face, and yes i went to another forum because i've tired of talking to Neanderthals, "White Knights" - no pun intended, Toms, and Lackeys. An adage about "arguing with fools" comes to mind. And where I go, you will follow; i'm not a provider - i don't need a sponsor, so i'd appreciate it if you'd stop sniffing around my ass and go back to your castle - the lady awaits - oh wait - maybe it was her that you followed here. When i need a Disgruntled, Ineffective, Power-tripping "OooHH, I can give points!", Liability of an Ex-Moderator around, i'll give you a ring.
This is an international board, one that includes all of the southern states and other places with less than stellar human and civil rights records. On MLK day, a national holiday reserved to honor a man and message, KC's board was the ONLY board to ridicule it, and after stating how, "fully aware of how terrible this is BUT" the poster (Sillygirl) proceeded to post it anyway, so I inferred that it was meant to offend. So, Yes, I said classy, is jest, but backwards, classless, insensitive, and out of touch with the rest of the world is closer to the truth. Regardless to how funny the image/joke was, the timing and disclaimer made it even that more offensive. It's like telling a really funny "Jesus" joke to a Priest, in Church, on a Sunday - no -the only Sunday of the year.
And it did just as i said that it would: one classless joke leads to another classless joke, which leads to another classless joke, and all of the jokes pointed towards one particular race. It's a slippery slope - how far is too far - this is reason that companies and people who are subject to liability have zero tolerance policies. How long before the N-word jokes start flying about?
People are at ease with ill-humor especially if the object of the humor is a familiar one to them; it fine as long as it's making fun of the same kind of people that they make fun of.
The offender saying to the offendee, "don't be offended" means what...?
Offensive or Funny?
