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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    mickeyrat said:

    the caption I keep seeing with this pic is "I met Eron Musk today"
    Oof. People can be better.
  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,211
    mickeyrat said:

    the caption I keep seeing with this pic is "I met Eron Musk today"
    Oof. People can be better.
    You expect too much 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    I have to otherwise I would just give up.

  • nicknyr15
    nicknyr15 Posts: 9,211
    I have to otherwise I would just give up.

    Great point. 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    mickeyrat said:

    the caption I keep seeing with this pic is "I met Eron Musk today"
    Oof. People can be better.
    I go back and forth on this one. I mean, even Seinfeld made a couple L/R asian pronunciation jokes in one episode. I don't know if it's really racist, or just a joke on how certain cultures pronounce english letters. 
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    If its something that you can go back and forth on, its probably best to err on the side of not doing it. 


  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    Also, IDK is Seinfeld is always the best bellweather of cultural appropriateness.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cigar_Store_Indian
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,337

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  • mickeyrat
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    mickeyrat said:



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  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    If its something that you can go back and forth on, its probably best to err on the side of not doing it. 


    People make fun of accents and how different cultures pronounce things all the time. We shouldn’t get to the point that every joke that has a cultural reference is automatically racist and/or offensive. 
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  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    If its something that you can go back and forth on, its probably best to err on the side of not doing it. 


    People make fun of accents and how different cultures pronounce things all the time. We shouldn’t get to the point that every joke that has a cultural reference is automatically racist and/or offensive. 
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  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    If its something that you can go back and forth on, its probably best to err on the side of not doing it. 


    People make fun of accents and how different cultures pronounce things all the time. We shouldn’t get to the point that every joke that has a cultural reference is automatically racist and/or offensive. 
    To be fair, we don’t NEED to make fun of people for stuff they have no control over or that’s different. 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,516
    Or to put it another way, do people WANT to point out and make light of the fact that some Asians have difficulties pronouncing Ls as Rs? 
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,152
    Or to put it another way, do people WANT to point out and make light of the fact that some Asians have difficulties pronouncing Ls as Rs? 
    You realize they make fun of us too right? 
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  • Tim Simmons
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    Who cares
  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,152
    Exactly!
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  • Tim Simmons
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    edited January 14
    Nah. We have to be good people. Leaning into a racial stereotype isn’t good. And just because they do it doesn’t give carte blanch to do it as retribution*. It’s ok to be the bigger person and not propagate bullshit.

    *to be clear, I don’t think these stereotypes started as retribution, it was white people punching down first. 
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  • Gern Blansten
    Gern Blansten Mar-A-Lago Posts: 22,152
    I'm not saying we do it just because they do it. I'm saying it's not a racial insult.
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  • Tim Simmons
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    Oh it absolutely is. 
  • OnWis97
    OnWis97 St. Paul, MN Posts: 5,610
    Seinfeld was my favorite show. Relative to being on NBC it was pretty edgy (I mean, the Contest was brilliant).

    There were a few things that I wasn't entirely comfortable with (I knew in real-time the Puerto Rica flag fire was going to go over poorly). I'm sure others didn't like some it it, as well. I had a co-worker who quit watching it over George's "restrained jubilation" (which I thought was more like "uncomfortable indifference") at Susan's death. We all have our own lines, I guess.

    As for the line in question, it' probably better that it not be there. Good comedians punch up. Mediocre comedians punch down (or good ones punch down in mediocre moments). Bad ones make 9 figures off of their shows and whine about political correctness decades later.

    I never thought to quit watching the show but I don't consider that a good moment for the show and they'd probably have been better off keeping that line out.
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