Delicious LiveJournal Links for 5-4-2010

[andrewducker]

• The results of the xkcd Colour Survey
  (tags: xkcd colour statistics funny survey)
• The Nordic approach to financing the welfare state
  (tags: socialism government economics politics taxes)
• What Would Don Draper Do?
  (tags: madmen funny television)
• Frankie Boyle defends his humour and calls the BBC cowards
  (tags: bbc comedy speech)
• Discovery of genes associated with autistic traits, empathy, and Asperger syndrome.
  (tags: genetics personality aspergers autism empathy)
• Ten reasons why, if you’re considering voting Labour, you should think again
  (tags: labour politics uk)

Comments

[cartesiandaemon.livejournal.com]

Re: Frankie Boyle. It seemed like what he was quoted as "kicked by a Jew" which is not explicitly racist against Jews, because it suggests some stereotypes about Jews, but not necessarily bad ones. And obviously, drawing attention to the bad things which have been done to Palestinians is good if also a difficult topic for humour. But OTOH, lots and lots of people DO make the conflation of "jew" = "evil" and "zionist", so I think it should be obvious to a reasonable person that saying that was going to make lots of Jewish people feel really awful. Of course, I don't know how offensive something should be to be banned from the BBC.

[andrewducker]

Oh, absolutely. I can see the case that it might add to anti-semitism because people leap to the wrong conclusions.