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[butzopower]

Why did you even have to put Oakland in the joke? Why name ANY city? It implies that the punch line has something to do with the location, which it doesn't according to you. Unless this is your own personal experiment to see which GAFers are prejudiced, by seeing which ones actually see racism in that joke. I'm on to you, OP!

I posted it earlier in the thread, but I came up with the joke after seeing an event on meetup.com for a free bone density scanning in Oakland. I was using a real background for the basis of the joke.

 

[windz]

No you're fine.

 

[Log4Girlz]

You can pursue your dreams of becoming a stand up comedian when they fire you.

 

[maquiladora]

No.

 

[kai3345]

No but you asking if your joke is racist is racist

 

[alterno69]

What a cracking joke

 

[TheDiabolical]

you just made the unemployment rate go up

 

[Alligatorjandro]

Somebody get Alligatorjandro. I think he has a .gif for this.

 

[weekend_warrior]

Terrible, Terrible joke. You couldn't at least go to jokes.com and find something decent?

 

[John Blade]

May I ask why you're those people who send email chain of dumb jokes to other people in the company? Also, that isn't a wise idea.

 

[Xeke]

Do you like fish sticks?

 

[SapientWolf]

I don't think it's that far of a stretch for someone to misconstrue what I said, though obviously I'm sensitive to the connection because I'm worried about it.

I'm not hyper PC, but if I heard someone making a joke about crack and Oakland, it wouldn't be a stretch to think they are referring to the fact that Oakland has a higher density of black people as compared to the rest of the Bay Area, and that they were inferring that said black people smoked crack. I'm worried that my lame joke will be taken in that manner.




I'm not sure how being aware of stereotypes that people make makes me a racist?

This explanation sounds more racist than the original joke, to be honest. You seem to be implying that there's a strong association between black people and crack.

 

[Grakl]

This thread is funnier than the OP's joke.

 

[RBH]

You should have gone with "I went to a bone density screening in Oakland and I got robbed by black people"

:lol :lol

 

[NinjaMouse]

I thought OP was posting a joke...I see none.

 

[Htown]

I think the OP needs more work on his sense of humor than his race relations.

 

[Count Dookkake]

A racist joke would be an improvement.

 

[XenoRaven]

The fact that you think it might be racist is more racist than the actual joke.

 

[butzopower]

May I ask why you're those people who send email chain of dumb jokes to other people in the company? Also, that isn't a wise idea.

It wasn't like I just suddenly sent out that dumb joke in an email by itself. This was in a side mailing list, that you have to subscribe to be on, meant for posting entertaining things. Someone made a really stupid joke, which was followed by more really stupid jokes. The joke I posted was my contribution.

 

[way more]

It's also kinda disturbing when a person doesn't know what is racist and not.

 

[3phemeral]

It wasn't like I just suddenly sent out that dumb joke in an email by itself. This was in a side mailing list, that you have to subscribe to be on, meant for posting entertaining things. Someone made a really stupid joke, which was followed by more really stupid jokes. The joke I posted was my contribution.

We occasionally have this at work. There's always that one person who makes a lame joke and ends the chain. Did that happen to you?

Your first order of business should reply to the mailing list and apologize profusely for a joke that may have been misinterpreted as potentially racist. I mean, because what other conclusion could you make out of it? They're obviously offended.

That's the only way you'll know for certain. The only way.