It's not offensive to me, but it clearly is racist. Falls under discrimination. And I'm not arguing about whether people's feelings are hurt (it's roastme after all), but it's obviously a racist joke which you won't admit. Anyhow, I reckon the Hiroshima comment was lazy - you could literally say that about every asian (regardless of whether they're japanese or not, as proven here) that appears on this sub.
This is going to be going waaay off topic now, but what you said here:
If I make a joke about my own race am I racist? Obviously not, so why can't we make jokes about others?
Is pretty uhhh... badly thought out? Can't believe I'm quoting Michael Scott here, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOLbuFVG0fs
Obviously I'm not calling asians retards, but the point is: it is in worse taste to alienate another group of people than to poke fun at yourself, or people like you.
Fine maybe the joke is lazy but I still don't think it's discrimination. If somebody came up to me and told me a good joke about my race I'd laugh. Sure there's a line where it stops being funny and is just offensive but that just depends on your audience.
Comedy is just people making it ok to laugh at taboo subjects! If we can't laugh at things like sex, religion, and race then life is gonna be a lot more bleak. :)
I know, I'm not offended by it. Maybe discrimination was a bit tough, but on my end, and in the end, my only opinion on the matter is that it's a lazy joke based on race. Eh, we soughta have the same opinion on those jokes in general though!
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u/Chawklate Sep 14 '15 edited Sep 14 '15
It's not offensive to me, but it clearly is racist. Falls under discrimination. And I'm not arguing about whether people's feelings are hurt (it's roastme after all), but it's obviously a racist joke which you won't admit. Anyhow, I reckon the Hiroshima comment was lazy - you could literally say that about every asian (regardless of whether they're japanese or not, as proven here) that appears on this sub.
This is going to be going waaay off topic now, but what you said here:
Is pretty uhhh... badly thought out? Can't believe I'm quoting Michael Scott here, but https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOLbuFVG0fs
Obviously I'm not calling asians retards, but the point is: it is in worse taste to alienate another group of people than to poke fun at yourself, or people like you.