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Words have power when you associate them directly with the innumerable hardships certain groups have suffered. While I too distance myself from the words, I can't help but understand when some people can't do it as easily as us, Mikey. As much as I want to say anti-semitic jokes are funny because they show the ignorance of the joke teller, I can't help but feel a slight hurt when I think about how that particular ignorance has led to indescribable pain for my family and my ancestors.
Free speech is free speech, but ignorant, stubborn racism is about as useless as a bucket full of dead monkeys.
This is true. Which is why movies like Blazing Saddles (thanks for the reminder, smamurai!) did so much towards the easing of racial tensions. Written by a black guy and a Jew, it broke a lot of comedy rules, one of which was to stay away from the race issue.
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The giant three-phallused phallus of Uzbekistan will one day squirt the cosmic jizz of revenge all over Canada.