Muscatine

An Italian Boy's Confession

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  • hechta
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At the risk of being called a negative nanny, I wonder why it is ok to make disparaging jokes about Italians. Just curious or does anyone else see this as derogatory?

Franklly I dont see the humor. Guess I am humor challenged.


I'd explain it to ya, but you can get locked up in the looney bin for talking to nvisible people. You know what I mean, people look at you all weird and stuff.

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  • hiroad
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I'm part Italian and I thought it was funny.  I'm also part German, Dutch, and Native American plus who knows what else going way back.  I always  believed that if you had a sufficient sense of self worth, jokes that happened to be about your ethnicity won't offend you.   At least they don't offend me.  I know who I am and my value and worth so I only see the humor in these things, not a put-down (at least not an effective put-down).

That kind of hypersensitivity played a large part in giving birth to political correctness.   If we are worried about proving the worth of (fill in the blank ethnic group) we must have a subconscious doubt about it.   I don't have any doubts about mine.

I'm Polock.

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  • nedl
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I'm catholic and I thought it was funny.

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