I Need Some Sensitivity Training

Published on October 18, 2007 in Education.

An African-american woman today told the janitor that her boss’s wastebasket was over flowing.

Would it be in bad taste to call her a brown noser?

Laurie? (HR dropout) arm jerker? (African-american woman) Grandad? (Irish rabble rouser)

UPDATE: As I think about this, it seems that we need equivalent bad taste jokes for us white folks. Somebody come up with a joke about Caucasians that is equally of poor taste and I’ll give equal time.

UPDATE 2: Does the animated gif make the joke more insensitive? more funny?

UPDATE 3: Is The New Yorker cover racist?

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1 Futsal
Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:22 am

Screw the irish. Pack o’ leprechauns. Though for some reason, my server is routed through there. Gio figure …

Anyway, my joke is in equally bad taste as yours, but on a different topic:
How do you make an orphan bleed?
Tell him to clap hands ’til daddy comes home.

Feel free to punch me.
2 goinglikesixty
Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:25 am

>>>PUNCH< <<

3 Beverly

Oct 18th, 2007 at 11:30 am

Sixty,

There are plenty of bad taste jokes for Caucasions out there. The difference is: we’re just careful not to say them in mixed company. On the other hand, I say call a spade a spade. Does that mean I’m referring to a a black person or referring to a “situation” as it really is? Maybe it depends on the source it’s coming from and the intent behind it.

Calling a black woman a “brown noser” isn’t offensive to me at all. You’re calling “a spade–a spade”