So I was wasting my life on twitter as any stereotypical teenager does, and I came across this.
https://twitter.com/TheFunnyRacist
At first I thought, rather optimistically it has to be said - this is the internet after all - that this page was dedicated to making fun of racists. But no, it's your stereotypical racist jokes, tired and overused from years of prejudice and ignorance.
Now I know some people, will justify this by some feeble mumbling of 'freedom of speech' and 'people take things to seriously'. Sure, making jokes about the slave trade under the pseudonym of 'the funny racist' is nothing to take seriously. People haven't marched and died to protect the rights of those from other cultures. No, honestly it's fine, you be a prejudiced, ignorant waste of space (you may as well join the Romney presidential campaign while you're at it).
For some reason, within the culture of the white middle class in Britain, it is acceptable to make 'jokes' about certain races. For example, it is not ok to make jokes about black people or the Irish or muslims, but it is fine to impersonate a chinese person, or make jokes about the japenese - and if you make a joke about a woman and a kitchen then well you are just plain hilarious. Fifty bigoted humour points to you! - Also, as a side note, making sexist jokes isn't attractive or flirting. I don't understand why women are supposed to find so-called jokes hilarious, when they are essentially based on hundreds of years of oppression that we are still trying to free ourselves from. Laugh at the joke, even pretend to laugh at the joke, and you are back in that chastity-belt again, forever doing laundry.
And for the same reason I hate people critiscing religion for their involvement in wars (ever considered the possibility that the war on terror is as a result of hatred for the west after we invaded them for oil and introduced a facist regime into their society, not because a couple of priests got together and ordered some guns off Ebay?!), and people justifying homophobia by saying its unnatural (the iPhone you use to spread your ignorant medieval ideas is also unnatural but I don't see u hating on that). The worst thing about this hate is it isn't ignorance, not in the community I live in. It's an active choice, you choose to behave that way, to vote for that person, to tweet racial prejudices, to adopt a personality that contradicts itself - whilst you crave the need for free speech to promote your ignorant views, you have no interest in the equality that is supposed to come hand in hand with liberal democracy. Choose differently. Think.

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