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

[usmu.livejournal.com]

And this is different how? If you reference the fact that they're Jewish, you obviously think it's relevant. Why do it otherwise? He doesn't do it in the first joke, so why in the second one?

[andrewducker]

Because it is relevant, for the reasons I listed above.

[usmu.livejournal.com]

I guess we're not going to see eye to eye on this one, because I fail to see how either race or religion is relevant to the joke that was made.

Even if it's factually correct and does play a part in the general problem.

[andrewducker]

Yeah, I guess we're going to have to drop it.

I see it as being in the same vein as, say, "I've never met a nice South African" by Spitting Image. Which was clearly wrong in any kind of literal sense, as there were many perfectly nice white South Africans, plus a lot of Black South Africans who the song wasn't about at all. But anyone listening to the song knew not to take it entirely literally, and it was clear that it wasn't, for instance, talking about Nelson Mandela.

You see it as increasing the negativity about Jews, which is clearly a bad thing.

Call it a day?

[usmu.livejournal.com]

Call it a day?

Only if it's actually a day and relevant to the issue at hand. ;)