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PC Cameron?
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Oxford University have told the Student's conservative association they can no longer use their name after a competition to tell the most offensive joke.
And two people have been suspended from the conservative party.
All over references to black people "hanging in the familly tree".
Surely Cameron should just have defended them and said that he wouldn't Kow Tow to the PC brigade if they want to use the "N word" about people stealing TVs - it's just a joke.
Like Carol Thatchers.
That's the impression I get from the "PC gone mad crew" on here.
Does anybody want to defend them? - or maybe explain when a joke just isn't funny!
Oxford University have told the Student's conservative association they can no longer use their name after a competition to tell the most offensive joke.
And two people have been suspended from the conservative party.
All over references to black people "hanging in the familly tree".
Surely Cameron should just have defended them and said that he wouldn't Kow Tow to the PC brigade if they want to use the "N word" about people stealing TVs - it's just a joke.
Like Carol Thatchers.
That's the impression I get from the "PC gone mad crew" on here.
Does anybody want to defend them? - or maybe explain when a joke just isn't funny!
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I think it's a matter of context.
A joke will suddenly become incredibly unfunny the moment it's repeated in the 'wrong' company.
For instance, I remember a Bernard Manning joke which went something along the lines of:
What do you call 200 n*ggers in a bus at the bottom of Atlantic?
A bloody good start
Now, in his club in Manchester, that would've gone down a storm - but repeat that joke at say, the Comedy Store in London in 1988, and it would be received with a degree of shock.
Repeat it at The Dogstar Comedy Club in Brixton, and the reaction would be somewhat more extreme.
A joke will suddenly become incredibly unfunny the moment it's repeated in the 'wrong' company.
For instance, I remember a Bernard Manning joke which went something along the lines of:
What do you call 200 n*ggers in a bus at the bottom of Atlantic?
A bloody good start
Now, in his club in Manchester, that would've gone down a storm - but repeat that joke at say, the Comedy Store in London in 1988, and it would be received with a degree of shock.
Repeat it at The Dogstar Comedy Club in Brixton, and the reaction would be somewhat more extreme.
A joke's offensive dependent on the education of the teller, if you went to university you're being post ironic and if you didn't, then you're an ignorant racist fool.
For example, when it did it become acceptable (again) for a middle aged white man to black up, don a fat suit and stroll around saying "hello baby"?
Ala "Little Britain."
When it did it become acceptable (again) for a middle aged white woman to look at a black man and say "yeah maan you know" blah blah, to look at an Asian and say "bud bud bud" and then make strange high pitched noises at the Chinese?
Ala Catherine Tate.
For example, when it did it become acceptable (again) for a middle aged white man to black up, don a fat suit and stroll around saying "hello baby"?
Ala "Little Britain."
When it did it become acceptable (again) for a middle aged white woman to look at a black man and say "yeah maan you know" blah blah, to look at an Asian and say "bud bud bud" and then make strange high pitched noises at the Chinese?
Ala Catherine Tate.
this is not a question of condemnation/support/PC gone mad etc etc. The whole point was it was a competition. Therefore a sort of tonue in cheek relaxation of what would normally be out of order. A bit like the TV shows, Love thy Neighbour, Till death us do part etc. It's really actually taking the p1ss out of those that think that sort of thing is valid. Cameron should not have commented at all.
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