Why is it ok to make fun of whites?
353476
The answer is that it is not ok. An average black person is as racist as a KKK member, and their language, attitudes, and actions are remarkably similar. Black people find strength and affirmation in their own racial identity by being offensive to people whom they perceive as the eternal aggressors, which is completely false. Africans, Arabs, and Asians pillaged and enslaved Europe without pity or cessation for hundreds of years.
1111965
That is a really good question.  I totally agree with you on all points.  Its always sue this person, sue that person.  What happened to freedom of speech?  No one has a sense of humor.  I am a fat woman,  I have been teased all my life.  I think fat women are the last of the species that people can still make fun of.  You never hear anyone talk about the fat bubbas laying on the beach making fun of fat women.  But so what?  I am what I am.  I'm sure not going to sue someone over it.  Or go whinning to the ACLU.
1137654
its sickening how poorly white people are treated.\n tisk tisk
735375
Yes there is a double standard. I wonder where all the white bashers went? I've seen at least two on here today. Why the double standard? Some people seem to need racism to continue, so they make sure that it does by constantly picking at white people to provoke them.
288037
It is reverse racism, and I do not agree with it. Some white people feel guilty over their ancestors' role in the history and let black people get away with it, and some black people fully exploit the situation. I think no one should use any derogatory terms towards another person. We should all try to let go of the past and move on towards a better tomorrow.
566920
Gee, another 12 year old pretending to be a minority who hates whites.  \nClue for you: the term "whitie" is a term no one uses anymore.  If you're going to pretend, at least be believable.
388420
Yeah, you're completely right.  Christianity is poked fun at a lot, particularly since people came forward about sexual abuse.  I disagree with a lot of Catholic Church beliefs (mostly about women and homosexuals) In that sense, one can see that the Church has soem narrow-mindedness as well.  No one really knwos the answers to these types of questions, like why is it okay to make fun of white people or homosexuals?  You're just right and there's nothing to do about it except asking friends not to make such insensitive jokes.
226464
I am not sure who decided it was ok to make fun of plus size people, but it's wrong.  God created everyone equal and we shouldn't make fun of anyone for anything.  We need to remember - what goes around comes around.  Also, we need to treat people the way we would like to be treated.  I find it very sad that people laugh at plus size people, or handicapped, etc.
1117475
My guess: every immigrant community goes through it, hence the Irish, the Polish etc. joke. They were different, they talked funny, acted funny, and so people manage fear/ lack of understanding with jokes. It's too simple to say that it's just racism and done by bad people. We in Eastern Europe, for example, have a whole lot of very painful, pointed jokes about ourselves. Bulgarians have some of the most vicious Bulgarian jokes around. Humor is a way to transmit very simplified cultural messages.
135659
What an obtuse question!\n\nSimply because that word was used by certain people precisely <as> a term of offense to describe 'some other people'.\n\nYour question would have much more validity if it were "why did white people decide to use that word as a term of offense in the first place?"\n\nYes we know that black people use the word within their own community, just as gay people use the word 'queer'. But that doesn't change the fact that the word was first given currency as a deliberate insult.
809150
Well it's like white people making fun of white people. All in good taste.
378493
to answer 1 and 3...if this joke involved ppl from london, italy, america...or any other presumable 'white' country...would you still say its a derogetory joke???  \nc'mon ppl...grow up and get a sense of humor.  just b/c someone is making a joke about a 'black' culture....does not mean that he's being derogatory or racist!
1140860
I think your point is that "reverse racism" is on the upswing.  But that's not to say it's more prevailant.  Just that it's less taboo, therfore, more visable.  \n\nOn TV, for example:  we'd see blacks making fun of a white boy calling him "Opie" & that seems socially acceptable, but you'd never see, on TV, a white man calling a black man "Buckwheat" or "Amos."  \n\nBut I'm sure there are a lot of guys making such jokes in private.
1086748
Funny. Nasty or clean doesn't matter to me. Racist jokes offend me though.
909354
making fun of something that exists
868953
Because it makes people, especially Whites, sick to their stomachs to see a White girl being courted by a Negro.  That may seem a tad racist, but that's just how it is.  It's kind of like staring at a midget.  It's just impossible to look away.  \n\nYou should date Blacks or other chicks of color.  Don't sully the Whites.  If you must have a Cracker, please don't take a good one.  Instead, get a fat one, or an ugly one, or a retarded one, etc.  It seems like a fat/ugly White chick will be wiling to date a dude of Color, because she has no choice.  It's really pretty sad.  Both for the White Race, and for the wretched White chick who must lower herself so.
650985
Theres nothing offensive it's just a stereotype which is probably true and we hate being stereotyped, like they say white people have small penises, not our fault, prolly is true.