Posted by Lou Pilder on February 2, 2003, at 8:22:25
In reply to Re: Ethnic Jokes » Lou Pilder, posted by NikkiT2 on February 2, 2003, at 5:50:47
NikkiT2,
You wrote about [...standards...]in referrence to acceptability or non-acceptability for posting humor here. If I was to make a page for the social board that addressed that , I would list the following criteria for OK or not OK:
The following are [not] OK:
A) Posts that use expressions of race or religion or nationl origin or sexual preferrence or handicap or gender etc. in an inappropriate manner.
B) Posts that demean, or ridicule a class or race etc.etc... of peoples.
C) other good or just causes to deem the post not[OK]
The following would be OK:
D)Posts that do not ridicule or demean peoples because of their ethnicisity or race, etc... even though the peoples may be mentioned.
When another poster here in the past wrote that W.C. Fields was asked, "Do you like children?" and his reply was, "It depends how they are cooked.". This is a good "test" example. The post ,IMHO, does not ridicule "children", even though "children" are used in the post.
But OTOH, if W.C. Fields was asked that question while he was visiting the ward in the Shriner's Burns Institute for children here in Cincinnati, then his reply would been "inappropriate".
Lou
poster:Lou Pilder
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