On 7/17/06, Abigail Brady <morwen(a)evilmagic.org> wrote:
Often with racist jokes we get the same jokes repeated
over and over
with different targets. So in order to document racist jokes we could
just give one of these patterns, with [INSERT NATIONALITY HERE],
perhaps. Where we are trying to demonstrate playing on /specific/
stereotypes this might be trickier.
Hmm, there probably aren't many of those. And even still, it might be
possible to separate the two, thus saying "common traits of races
attacked in racist jokes are as follows: Foobians: big ears, bad table
manners." then later "Jokes about big ears: ......."
Thus, I suspect it is not particularly offensive to say "there exist a
number of jokes, particularly aimed at Jewish, Dutch and Scottish
people, about miserliness". One can then give an example of a joke
like "What did the <nationality> man say to the...?" etc. By
separating the offensive characteristic from the joke, I think the
offensiveness is greatly reduced.
Steve