Banning

[Kingsway]

As you can see, a worthy has reported this item to the Answerbank Editor for banning
http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Phrases-and-Say ings/Jokes/Question353318.html
Should it be banned?

[Pea Pod]

I enjoyed it. Why don`t we ban all jokes they`re bound to upset someone.I was brought up in the age when you could say what you wanted when you wanted.

[vidkun]

when was that age?

[drestie]

Yes.

[naz_nomad]

That was hilarious ...people really need to lighten up.

[BBWCHATT]

I don't get upset when jokes are told about "fat old ladies" - I hope my sense of humor is one of the last things I lose :)

[noxlumos]

No of course not. My wife is Jewish and I know for a fact that her family and friends laughed at a joke that I found truly awful and I was really shocked about it. I think if anyone reports it, it should only be a Jewish person, as otherwise it's just a pc exc ercise surely?

[drestie]

But there is no report button, nox.

[jno]

I thought that was quite funny in 1965. Now I don't. My universe would not be incomplete if it vanished, though as it hasn't got a report option, it seems the Ed has approved it.

[aka pixi]

aww its just a joke. My daughter is half irish and my son is half welsh and they both get some real stick off me and my fella, especially my lad, I suppose you can all guess what we call him lol

[tara20]

I knew that joke from school, a looooooong time ago. Then it was an Englishman, an Irishman and a Scotsman. Guess who wrote the cheque? I didn�t feel at all insulted. Some people should get a life.

[jno]

well, it's worth analysing the joke. The Jews have a reputation for being greedy and clever with money, ha ha. Some people start to think they secretly have so much money that they control governments. Populist politicians start to demand that they be expelled or even killed for the good of the rest of the people. (This has happened a lot of times over the centuries.) So people start building death camps...

See why the joke might not be so funny?

[ummmm1]

But it's a joke.......No worse than the jokes I have posted on there where Mr Irishman appears slightly thick.....and I'm Irish!!!!

Tumour on their humour

[idalovett]

That joke is years old.....how was it banned? Does someone have to post an answer and then ban the post or can they just ban any post anywhere? I cannot understand this banning that goes on here with members coming back under a new name and recognised as an old name and surely if something is not to your personal individual taste then there is no reason to ban it and exclude others who may have a better sense of humour than yourself? I can understand banning if any person advertises or is very rude but the banning rules on AB seem to be very weird.

[drestie]

Thank you, jno.
A voice of reason.

Lots of things are years old - doesn't mean they are ok.

I will not go into a discussion of anti-semitism now, because this is the wrong place and audience. I see so many anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim posts on this site that everyone seems to think are just fine and all in good fun. Well before you tell someone to get a life and lighten up, next time think who you are saying that to, and maybe think that they have a reason for being offended. Just because these things don't touch your lives, doesn't mean they don't severely affect others.

[idalovett]

dresdie, as a matter of interest that joke was given to me years ago and it came from a Jewish Company and the boss (himself a Jew) sent it to me. I am not Jewish but if he could see the fun in it then it says a lot. Someone said here that they see nothing wrong in fat jokes as they were fat - I see nothing wrong in jokes concerning disabilities and I am disabled - I don't think we can look at the Jewish past going back thousands of years and relate it to atrocities in the last world war. I have Jewish friends and they make jokes similar to this. I think some of you have very good points that you have made but are way too touchy ?

[ummmm1]

Well said iadlovett

[Pantheon]

Jokes amuse many but offend the few at whose expense they are.

An old joke like this is viewed differently today, than over the past. Times change, attitudes change and what is sociably acceptable within the law changes.

Why not have a Jokes sub-category - then Abers will know if they enter this Topic, there will be 'moderated' jokes there - some of which they will find funny and others that may 'touch on a sensitivity' and not seem to them so funny.

Joke telling like the one in this Question should be posted to this sub-category.

{plain joke telling is not the same as witty banter on threads}

[jno]

ida, I disagree. Obviously my last post compressed things a lot; but I believe there is indeed a common thread running through Jewish history that does link anti-Jewish jokes to anti-Jewish pogroms.

Jews themselves may well tell such jokes, and other Jews may laugh at them, but then Jews have nothing to fear from other Jews. It's when the identity of the teller of the joke is unknown that it becomes troublesome. In this case, it could for instance have been someone from the National Front. Would the joke sound so funny coming from, say, Nick Griffin or David Irving? Or the Iranian president? Would it be 'just a joke'?

[-Zorro-]

Its clearlt anti-Scottish not anti-semetic as he says the Irishman gives money twice but Scotsman gives nothing.

[ummmm1]

Pantheon....check the link again. It did infact come from the joke category.