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SO WHO CAN YOU STILL JOKE ABOUT? A List of groups you can still safely make public jokes about
Powerline ^ | 12/16/2014 | Steven Hayward

Posted on 12/16/2014 1:41:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind

I’ve been trying to come up with a list of nationalities or ethnic groups—even subgroups—about whom it is still safe to make a joke publicly, since political correctness is shrinking the domain down to the vanishing point. Before long you won’t be able to make jokes about “little green men” from Mars, for fear of offending illegal aliens “undocumented” immigrants. I’m not even sure you can joke about white people any more, like Martin Mull and Allen Rucker did 20 years ago in A History of White People in America. Not even Sony would risk publishing this right now.

So here’s my list of groups or subgroups you can still safely make public jokes about:

1. Jewish mothers.

2. That’s it. (And Scott will have to tell me if Item #1 is in fact correct. But to this point I haven’t heard the ADL react the way FAIR reacts to anything satirical about Islam.)

Well yes, maybe you can make jokes and the French and Germans and the British, but fashionable opinion holds it against you.

The great John Cleese appeared on Bill Maher’s show last weekend, and offered an intelligent discussion of why you can’t joke about Mexicans or Muslims, and why it’s condescending. Plus this: “If you make jokes about people who are going to kill you, there is a sort of tendency to hold back a little.” (About four minutes long.)

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TOPICS: Humor; Society
KEYWORDS: ethnicity; jokes
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1 posted on 12/16/2014 1:41:47 PM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Its always PC to make indecent jokes about Catholic Priests


2 posted on 12/16/2014 1:42:59 PM PST by PGR88
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To: SeekAndFind

just find the current list of groups that have special legal protections.

none of these can be joked about.


3 posted on 12/16/2014 1:43:08 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: SeekAndFind

I still joke about anyone and everyone that I feel like. unless I am at work.

There is no right to NOT be offended.

Often I will notice people in the car behind me at a traffic light taking a picture of my bumper sticker with their phone. My sticker reads:

When fascism comes to America it will come across an unsecured border carrying a koran.


4 posted on 12/16/2014 1:45:22 PM PST by rfreedom4u (Do you know who Barry Soetoro is?)
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To: Secret Agent Man

Stock ticker is required to keep track of protected groups and forbidden words.


5 posted on 12/16/2014 1:45:23 PM PST by Crazieman (Article V or National Divorce. The only solutions now.)
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To: SeekAndFind

You can make fun of the Irish.

We don’t care and are fairly self deprecating.


6 posted on 12/16/2014 1:46:04 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously-you won't live through it anyway-Enjoy Yourself ala Louis Prima)
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To: SeekAndFind

The white Christian male husband and father.

According to TV shows and commericials, we are slightly dumber than Al Bundy.


7 posted on 12/16/2014 1:46:37 PM PST by Responsibility2nd (NO LIBS. This Means Liberals and (L)libertarians! Same Thing. NO LIBS!!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Whites, Christians, White Christians living in “flyover” country.


8 posted on 12/16/2014 1:46:52 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: Vendome

RE: You can make fun of the Irish.

There’s a whole website just for it:

http://www.irishjokes.com/


9 posted on 12/16/2014 1:47:31 PM PST by SeekAndFind (If at first you don't succeed, put it out for beta test.)
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To: Jagdgewehr

White Christians, yep.

The only group that it’s “legal” to discriminate against.


10 posted on 12/16/2014 1:48:02 PM PST by MrB (The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
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To: SeekAndFind

Anybody I feel like. Its still mostly America! :-)


11 posted on 12/16/2014 1:48:31 PM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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Blondes.

They aren't an ethnicity but on the other hand there aren't too many asian, black or otherwise third world blondes.

12 posted on 12/16/2014 1:48:47 PM PST by skeeter
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To: MrB

True enough.


13 posted on 12/16/2014 1:48:53 PM PST by Jagdgewehr (It will take blood.)
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To: SeekAndFind

So true. There’s a saying (I’ll probably mangle it a bit) about how it used to be you could joke about most anything, so long as you didn’t curse while doing it (that was “Blue” shows). Now, you can use all the foul language you want, just so long as your subject matter doesn’t offend anyone.

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14 posted on 12/16/2014 1:49:00 PM PST by DemforBush (A Repo Man is always intense.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Fat people
People with certain disabilities or deformities (not all)

What ever happened to pollock jokes? Can’t you still make fun of Polish people?


15 posted on 12/16/2014 1:50:00 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: SeekAndFind

A Fortune 500 company I worked for made us sign a 10 page “ethics” statement. Among the prohibitions were we could not tell a joke, ever. When I asked why the round-eyed HR lady said, “because you have NO idea who you might offend.”


16 posted on 12/16/2014 1:51:06 PM PST by Gen.Blather
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To: skeeter

Oh yes, definitely blondes. But that’s just jealousy. LOL!


17 posted on 12/16/2014 1:51:34 PM PST by The Ghost of FReepers Past (Woe unto them that call evil good, and good evil; that put darkness for light..... Isaiah 5:20)
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To: The Ghost of FReepers Past

I’m equal opportunity. Don’t care about PC.


18 posted on 12/16/2014 1:52:18 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (You can't spell liberal without label.)
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To: Vendome

You can tell polish jokes and I won’t mind. (but you have to explain them to me)


19 posted on 12/16/2014 1:53:23 PM PST by Mr. K (Palin/Cruz 2016)
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To: SeekAndFind

Well there’s:NRA, Conservatives, The Tea Party, Rush Limbaugh and any conservative talk show host, any American who’s not a liberal or Democrat .....


20 posted on 12/16/2014 1:54:17 PM PST by SkyDancer (I Was Told Nobody Is Perfect But Yet, Here I Am)
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