[ExI] Sunday Creationist

[William Flynn Wallace]

Are we all becoming like the blowfish?  Puff up at the slightest stimulus?
One man's gentle poke is another man's non-pc sneer.  Aside from puns,
aren't most jokes some kind of non-pc?  What are we going to do?  I don't
want to offend anyone, but then I also don't want anyone who overreacts to
stop me from some humor that I find funny.

One problem we have is that we are just too smart.  We can make fun of most
of the human race - obliviots, somebody coined - I like it and I am not
going to apologize for it.  I find a black face fearful about something,
with all the whites of the eyes showing, funny.  I love ditzy blond jokes.
(to me it's little fun - sneering is beyond the pale:  too aggressive for
me - offensive)

We all know that we are overgeneralizing and stereotyping- that, I assert,
is the point.  Who wants to start a joke with "I know this real ditzy
blond, although I know that she is not representative of girls or of
blonds, so don't get me wrong; I am not a sexist at all,
but.................."

Is that what it has come to?   bill w


On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:07 PM Dylan Distasio <interzone at gmail.com> wrote:

> Either that, or they'll just get another 4 years of Trump and those
> afflicted with TDS ranting about him the entire term.   Your lesson looks
> like it is going to take longer to sink in than one election...
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 8:38 PM Darin Sunley <dsunley at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>>
>> The civil war will get great ratings though. Maybe this time the
>> revolution /will/ be televised.
>>
>>
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