How Po-Faced Are We Going To Become?

[Togo]

Do you not think that this is typical PC over reaction to a harmless joke?

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/462260/Tory-naked-boat-picture-Carlsberg-illegal-immigrants

[-Talbot-]

Find offence if one must, but why do the lefties always have to revert to insults, name calling,


It's not the lefties is it AOG. It is individual ABers who do it.

[dave50]

This set me thinking. It seems to me that the typical left wing in the Labour party of which there are many on here criticizing this joke are so out of touch with their traditional working class supporters they will be lucky ever to get in power again. If this was a joke told by a comic in a northern working mans club, they would think it funny. When Bernard Manning was alive he regularly filled these places with ordinary working people who knew a joke when they heard one and still do. Can you imagine if he was alive today and he did a routine at the Labour party conference? There would be no laughter, due to the fact that those types always seem to have had a sense of humour by-pass. There would be just horror and outrage.

[naomi24]

//How Po-Faced Are We Going To Become?//

I dread to think, but the politically correct do seem to be experiencing a rapidly diminishing sense of humour – and expecting the rest of us to follow suit.

[Svejk]

Luckily, we're witnessing the death throes of a dead philosophy. (I believe and hope.)

[anotheoldgit]

dave50

I don't suppose you can blame the whole of Labour's supporters Dave, it is their political masters who tell them how to think and what is the latest thing to be offended over.

[gness]

So...if I don't find something funny but you...and you...and you do I'm a po-faced, politically correct, out of touch leftie...??

Couldn't possibly be another reason I don't find it funny could there?

[Zacs-Master]

Several Gness.

[Svejk]

The difference is, Gness, we wouldn't force you to find it funny. (or else)

[gness]

But by offering my view I'm not forcing anyone to find it not funny......I can see how some people would.....how could I change that? Why would I want to?

I simply don't find it funny....it's not my humour......just confirms my opinion of those who do.....but I'm not offended by that......and I'm not surprised.

[anotheoldgit]

The question that has not been asked is why did the media find it necessary to blank out certain areas of the female form, is it not suitable for us to set our eyes upon?

Or is that another debate?

http://cdn.images.dailystar.co.uk/dynamic/1/photos/954000/280954.jpg

[naomi24]

gness, //But by offering my view I'm not forcing anyone to find it not funny//

No you’re not but it’s been suggested that people who do find it funny are tasteless and that they think that people dying attempting to find a better life is a subject for humour – which of course is not true at all. Can you not see where the perceived compulsion to join the offended comes from?

//just confirms my opinion of those who do//

Which is what?

[chaptazbru2]

I don't think it's funny, not because of immigrants, I just don't find it funny !

[ummmm]

But are you offended?

[Svejk]

^That is your prerogative.

[chaptazbru2]

Definitley not !

[chaptazbru2]

Thank you Svejk, I know that !

[Togo]

dave50 how on earth did you manage to get away with mentioning Bernard Manning? You must know that along with Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Jim Davidson, and particularly Chubby Brown you mustn't. You need to embrace Frankie Boyle, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, both of the Carrs and all the rest whose patter appeals to the right on.

[andy-hughes]

Togo - "dave50 how on earth did you manage to get away with mentioning Bernard Manning? You must know that along with Dick Emery, Benny Hill, Jim Davidson, and particularly Chubby Brown you mustn't. You need to embrace Frankie Boyle, David Walliams, Matt Lucas, both of the Carrs and all the rest whose patter appeals to the right on."

Humour is one of the most subjective concepts in our culture - you cannot simplify it down to saying that right-wing thinking people only laugh at right-wing comedians, and vice versa, I think that is far too simplistic a view of a complex situation.

It is a fact that most of the popular comedians these days are left-wing in their politics, and their comedy routines - but Chubby Brown and Jim Davidson still attract massive audiences.

Humour comes down to who, or what makes you laugh, not where you place your cross on a ballot paper.

[ludwig]

I think it's right that the councillor is in trouble over this. People in public office need to demonstrate an awareness of what might be called political correctness, even if they're secretly contemptuous of it. To not do so demonstrates stupidity and/or arrogance.

I personally think the joke's in slightly poor taste, but that's about all. I wouldn't lecture anyone else about why they shouldn't like it either.

[andy-hughes]

Ludwig - "I think it's right that the councillor is in trouble over this. People in public office need to demonstrate an awareness of what might be called political correctness, even if they're secretly contemptuous of it. To not do so demonstrates stupidity and/or arrogance."

I entirely agree - judgement has to be exercised in public office, and be seen to be exercised.

The freedom to exhibit a certain sense of humour on social media is curtailed by taking up a public office such as a counsellor - and it behoves the incumbent to be aware of that and to act accordingly.