i dont it funny at all, especially racist asian jokes just because they dont fight back
2007-01-28 04:41:27 · 18 answers · asked by cube_melon 1 in Society & Culture ➔ Cultures & Groups ➔ Other - Cultures & Groups
People laugh because they are stupid and ignorant and have no clue of how it offends people.
2007-01-28 04:43:39 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 3⤋
It all depends on who's telling what joke. If a 'White' man is telling a 'Blackman with big lips' joke, then most 'Black' people won't laugh (out loud), and they'll get offended (out loud). However there are a lot of 'Black' people who are offended at Richard Pryor for the way he tells jokes and fables about his own experience, because they feel his acts support 'Black' stereotypes. For me, jokes come from situations of personal/national experience, which sometimes make fun of stereotypes. Racist jokes or not, people perceive what they want about someone different from themselves. It's just human nature and not necessarity hate.
2007-02-03 07:53:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
A white girl told me a racial joke about africans and rice. i didn't think it was a damn bit funny. Our friendship cooled after that because that let me know she was racist.
2007-02-02 04:21:22 · answer #3 · answered by LENA 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
They laugh because they are ignorant, afraid of anyone different, and have a low self-esteem. I find those jokes very offensive too.
2007-02-03 22:59:46 · answer #4 · answered by fenhongjiatu1 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I laugh at racial jokes against my own race.
As long as the joke is funny, I am going to laugh at it.
2007-01-28 04:45:54 · answer #5 · answered by There you are∫ 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
It depends. I usually get very offended at racial jokes.
2007-01-28 04:56:05 · answer #6 · answered by Rommie 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Only immature & insecure people think racial jokes are funny.
2007-01-28 06:16:31 · answer #7 · answered by glow 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Your wording is presumptuous. You can do without the word "abuse" in your question. People laugh at racial jokes because of their irony: they make humor out of an exaggeration which has a core of truth in it.
2007-01-28 04:50:37 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋
Because they are ignorant and insecure and have fun belittling others to boost themselves up.
I wish all comedians would leave racial jokes out of their skits, even ones about themselves. How are we ever going to overcome stereotypes when folks are still perpetuating them.
2007-01-28 04:49:15 · answer #9 · answered by anosey1 4 · 3⤊ 2⤋
It's a nervous laugh because it's wrong.
Some people dare to verbalize that which we only dare think about, and that's what makes it funny, our internal embarassment.
2007-01-28 04:48:50 · answer #10 · answered by ♨ Wisper ► 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
The same reason they laugh at people slipping on a banana peel.
2007-01-28 04:45:35 · answer #11 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 2⤋