Comments on: If a comedian is offensive, just don’t listen to that comedian and stop complaining https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/15/if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining/ Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:37 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.8 By: StevoR https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/15/if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining/#comment-15785 Tue, 15 May 2012 16:47:37 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3478#comment-15785 Co-incidentally, just finshed watching an episode of Last Comic Standing where (I think) the very last woman was eliminated.

With oodles of male comics left.

Something seems wrong with this picture ..

]]> By: cervantes https://gregladen.com/blog/2012/05/15/if-a-comedian-is-offensive-just-dont-listen-to-that-comedian-and-stop-complaining/#comment-15784 Tue, 15 May 2012 14:56:21 +0000 http://freethoughtblogs.com/xblog/?p=3478#comment-15784 Back when I was in grad school I did some consulting work. One project was a minority needs assessment study for a small, tired mill city in Massachusetts. I went to interview the mayor, and what do you think was the first thing he said to me? “What do you call a black kid with a bicycle?” I said I didn’t know. “A thief,” was the punch line.

I believe he was trying to break the ice by mocking racism — he turned out to be on the right side as the interview went on — but that was one weird first impression.

So yeah, you need to be really careful about that shit. Good intentions don’t much matter.

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