Is it discriminatory to make fun of everyone except one group?

Question

Is it?

lol..no i don't belong to any groups. I only ask in humor.

I was walking somewhere with a friend one day and this little, i guess, 8 yr old kid popped over the fence of his back yard and started howling and barking and making all kinds of animal noises and I said to my friend, that kids a f*ckin retard. My friend was like, "that kid is autistic, you shouldn't make fun him." He said this right after making a joke about fat people. I was like, but if I'm always laughing about everyone and I suddenly stop laughing about a particular group just because they are different, wouldn't that also be a form of discrimination. I should laugh at this kid equally as much as i'd laugh at myself in a similar situation, right?

I'm not really looking for serious answer, just making fun on a situation. I know in my heart it's not right to make fun of anyone. But lets face it...this is american and i like to laugh at random things.

Answer 1

By definition, yes. That involves making a distinction between groups. Technically, any logical operation that singles out or removes an item from a set of items is a discriminator. So, you would be discriminating.

See how easy it is when you look at it logically, and strip away all the BS and justifications for your behavior?

Would you, assuming it's you doing the discriminating, by any chance, happen to be a member of the one group you refuse to make fun of?

Apologies if you're asking this in reference to someone else.