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Feb 12, 2018 5:38 AM
Shrais
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KingDD13
"My thoughts and prayers" Victims are busy being victims.
Ragnarok1030
It's not that im offended, because I'm not. He's just not funny.
meeperton
Many people say don't get offended by jokes until it hits home personally.
dagomadness
Anthony Jeselnik was inducted into my high school's Arts HOF last year. He took questions and roasted kids for 30 minutes.
nsdev
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE3ISzalVuo
kojenk
Mind you. The woman he mentioned did ask him to come up with a different stereotype & realized the railroad joke was perfect for said reason
FrankRizzo55
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqDX55kyA9M
CommanderWilliamTRiker
He makes a very good point.
captainbrainstorm
theguy5621
Im not your damn summarizer. Summarize your own read.
Andied
I dont exactly know if being offended makes you stupid. "HAHA, your mom died"
MorgulTheFriendlyDrelb
Whatever happened to jessleneck anyway?
GradiustheFox
I think Tosh finally grew too weak and reabsorbed him.
Porecomesis
I feel that people who feel compelled to say you can't have a funny joke without being offensive aren't trying enough. There are lots of 1/
Porecomesis
jokes that are hilarious without having the intent of or indifference to pissing someone off. 2/2
MakeItBackAlright
There's jokes that are offensive and there are offences that people want you to treat like a joke. The distinction eludes a true racist.
Porecomesis
Of course, there are more jokes than just those.
divingin
Problem is, that had nothing to do with offended people; it had to do with idiots trying to protect people from being offended.
Nechronic
A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS THEY SAID
ATreeWithSunglasses
i understand it. Cause i read Lucky Luke
whatthehellanotheraccount
I wanna upvote Anthony
Pattosaurus20xx
Upvote all up in that jeselneck
CigaretteMan
Except such people are in charge of judging what others would be offended by, not themselves. So if they're stupid, it doesn't mean shit.
BenSnow97
*stupid people get offended for others and try to silence you. That latter part is the problem.
alticaarden
They are too stupid to realise that what they judged as offensive to others is actually less offensive than what they approved
IWishIWereNotAllergicToCats
But she didn't actually get offended ... she was just doing her job ...
Mrpolojohn
facts!
Traja01
Opinion!
DeniseReade
O.O yep. Way more offensive
LumberCat
Did someone say Shark Party?
ohnoyoudid
As an Asian, don't find railroad more offensive. It's a joke those whose ancestors did it think it's a joke now.
JadeMcLeod
I just want to know what build a railroad means
BlacksMcNutt
Username is validated by your question. Take a history class.
Shrais
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Chinese_Americans
MyLifeisaComplicatedDrinkingGame
Chinese immigrants built the western part of the transcontinental railroad. It was borderline slave labor. Hundreds died.
ThailandExpress
VioletMoonRising
They basically threw the chinese at the railroads until they were finished. Brutal shit.
tumppu
Not only chinese, but other immigrant/slave labor as well.
legofham
WW2 labour camps in Asia were pretty fucking horrid too, pretty sure Bridge Over the River Kwai was a based on railroads. Fucking horrid.
Happinessfarmer72
Have you not seen blazing saddles? " dock that chink a days pay for napping on the job" after he passes out from heat exhaustion.
RYG420
Lol great film
Imaybegotthis
When we built railroad tunnels through mountains, the Asians got to hold the dynamite
yourCleverUsername10
Like imagine if old, rich, white Americans were Hitler and anybody who wasn't a white American was a gay Jew...America hasn't been very nice
yourCleverUsername10
-to non white Americans in the past. And sometimes the white ones too if they were poor.
VioletMoonRising
woah. easy. You are seriously understating what an atrocity that was comparing them to Hitler.
ImGettingHuger
Many early railroad systems were built off of minority labor done primarily by Irish and Chinese immigrants. They were not treated well.
Mach30ThatsFasterThanMostPlanesCanGo
That's probably it lightly
kojenk
Imagine handling jars of nitro and spending days or weeks in the utter darkness of caves to make the railroad.
MountainYankee
I remember reading about that in one of my american history courses, 100's were killed in easily preventable accidents.
CoBr2
You’re off by at least 1 factor of 10, probably 2.
MountainYankee
That's what 2 hours of sleep and dried eyes will do. But seriously, thousands if not tens of thousands.
CoBr2
If memory serves they had to keep shipping in new ones because they were running out.
Overjay2
Well fuck me, and wide arrays people in US know that and really understand these jokes?
Marceldeno
Seriously that is part of your history as americans but I can tell you that you wouldn't have to explain this to most Dutch people.
Overjay2
I mean as not a US citizen I do not understand this, but I also find this joke very niche and I cannot believe it is understood by many folk
ColonelCouch
Why do the Dutch know about this?
IPostPicturesOfMyWeinerDogs
This offends me
BenSnow97
Your existence offends me, I demand to take it down /s
IPostPicturesOfMyWeinerDogs
I respect your opinion. I apologise for any offense I've given with my existence and will proceed to commit seppuku to make up for it.
cwolfHitLord
In Dave Chapelle's recent stand up on Netflix, this is the reason he's giving as to why he's quitting stand up.
Yomummasmumma
IWasToldThereWouldBePie
ButterfaceTaintClown
Don't worry, they've just released this post on audible...
Seizethegap
iknowitsnotbutter
SadToSay
felixff
Heehehehe
theguy5621
For those of you who don't get it, many of the US early railroad's were built via Chinese immigrants who often died to poor work conditions.
jridley
Known to anyone who's watched Blazing Saddles.
HughLaurie
Do people not know this? It's taught right along with how the invention of rail travel shaped the country.
Devante
Thanks man. I didn't get it but then again I didn't read this mini wall of text.
sanders1004
Canada has a Heritage Minute about it.
EalisLav
So it's similar to saying 'pick some cotton' to Afroamerican?
drGrafenberg
Yes, only your example would cause riots.
Captainplanetmotherfucker
Yeah, I watched Shanghi Noon as well.
theguy5621
I never watched Shanghi noon, just went to history class
popejubal
Or Blazing Saddles. Or Kung-Fu.
TheFozzieBear
Or wait to be taken as a POW by Japanese and they put you to work.
TheKindlyOnes
or eat you. check out the Ogasawara incident and Chichijima incident
TheFozzieBear
I'm not fond of those career opportunities. :( Seriously though, the crap that has happened and still happens is unimaginable.
TheKindlyOnes
Yeh... Well, as i brought up something depressing and messed up... https://assets.rbl.ms/16953493/980x.gif Something to make up for it?
TheFozzieBear
As someone who is interested in history, I come across something bad on an almost daily basis but yeah, dogs are the best. :)
psrobyn1
If you came TO America FROM somewhere else you most likely had the holy s**t exploited out of you for a few decades/centuries.
AustrailanSecurityIntelligenceOrganisation
Lot Irish immigrants too, many were killed by Native American war party’s or simple dysentery, the conditions weren’t great
oldarchive
And of course the Natives just kinda died. To quote AO1O: "We left England to make America! Don't ask what we did next.."
preaction
What does other people also being killed have to do with the joke?
AndrewBrandon
Tip of the iceberg but totally correct. It's basically the same as a cotton picking joke and it's sad that many people don't know why.
jimmythehat1
see also "filthy yellow hordes" or "Yellow Peril" where xenophobia against Asian immigration attributed "yellow" as an insult to Asians, but
jimmythehat1
yellow as an insult has a long varied etiology from yellow-bellied to the 4 humors [bodily fluids] to it's use in flags.
theguy5621
I only have so many characters to type tho.
RedgarRedbeard
it's okay dude, you gave a good summery given the character limit
BulletproofMannequin
Yes, they really are. Most of the time they get offended just because they think someone should.
HaikuCarChase
Vicarious offense offends me vicariously
khora
That's their job! If they are not offended it is likely that there will be no complaints or filed suits.
Traja01
Or they had a negative personal experience and the joke makes light of it. It's okay to be offended, it's how you handle what comes next
Traja01
that determines what kind of person you are. It's okay to be offended, it's okay to not be, it's important to talk about this stuff instead
Traja01
of completely shutting it down, either by insisting certain jokes can't be told or insisting people can't take offense to a joke.
SerialKitten666
Like when white people get offended when you say the N word, even if you're just singing along to a song...
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
NeutralPitStopCommenter
yourCleverUsername10
So glad i have a reaction folder now
tumppu
Fukken saved
meskarune
^ everyone on the alt-right
hertta
and the radical left.
Traja01
So whiny bitches, basically
meskarune
The donwvotes just prove my point lol
sweetspots
As an Asian I feel the railroad joke is less offensive. One can joke about history & learn rather than current stereotype of Asian identity
gman41750
Really? I’m from SF California. Third generation. I don’t think Asian when I hear laundryman. I DO think Asian slave labor when 1/
gman41750
I hear build a railroad. Oh well. If I bugs you, that’s good enough for me. I’ll keep it in mind in the future. Screw stereotypes
sweetspots
Nah. not upset, just saying what my view on this was, when it’s seem so many are saying railroad is much worse. I’m Australian by the way
CthulhuCups
It's only offensive in the way that telling black people to pick cotton is. People were denied liberty and died. US history is fun.
delpharseven
You can't put the word midget on TV.
MidgetHumper
Can I put me on a midget?
audioknob
Vertically challenged?
Cybrwzrd
What about Dwarf? Can we call them dwarfs?
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
I just did. What you gonna do about it?
delpharseven
That's the word midget on *a* TV. Much different. (also go watch John Mulaney's "New In Town" immediately)
Soolie
whatspaulplayingtoday
I like you.
rusrsdude
You're so brave. I hope you don't get banned for this.
IRateYourChristmasSelfies
So do I. I really like this account.
MultiTrackDrifting
Why is everyone doing a John Mulaney bit in Jeselnick’s post?
sgtriley25
EXACTLY!!!
Blowseph
Referencing offensiveness of words/jokes on tv.
FrenchButterPerformance
There will be a protest of Midgets on this building
Mohead12
Promise?
StarkeRealm
Ah, yes, a good, old-fashioned, midget protest; I haven't seen one of those in years.
BuckyW
Fuckin love John Mulaney
BeachJustice2000
reddit.com/r/unexpectedmulaney
Justpokenit
It's just as bad as the N word
dirtydanisreal
Freaking Honkeys.
LiteralNazi
Midget is worse than the N-word! Ok, first, no. If youre comparing the badness of words, and you wont say one of them, that's the worse word
Justpokenit
Thank you
DavidRoland
Midget midget midget midget midget midget midget. Im 100% midget.
DefenderTIM
And that's why I only watch the internet now.
realmdweller
What I wouldn’t give for some masking tape, a sharpie, and an old CRT right about now.
thepicklebucket
Even grammar nazis are afraid of word midgets
TakWriterOfWorlds
I sure would like to.
delpharseven
No. Midget is as bad as the n-word.
XaiaX
First of all, no.
manolyk23
Not even close!
delpharseven
It's a joke from John Mulaney's excellent "New In Town". Find it and watch it, you won't regret it.
RachTrap
whoosh
themadspeedster94
If you're comparing the severity of two words and you won't even say one of em. That's the worse word