[Jim Watson]

I’ll take a stab at answering this question from a personal basis. When I was young, my world was much smaller – consisting only of the people that I knew or was connected with in some manner (church, school, work, community). There were certainly jokes which were distasteful but the far majority of jokes that were told (ethnic, religious, gender) were told not to demean but, rather, told in an inclusive humorous attitude – and they were accepted that way – and we laughed at ourselves — which is one of the most important requirements of human intercourse. As I grew, my world expanded in awareness via communications and I found that many of the things I thought humorous now violated someone’s senses — which are defined by a term called being ‘Political Correct’. Too bad! Not only have we lost our sense to laugh at ourselves, we now have developed a society of hypocrites who still can see humor – ‘PC’ just doesn’t allow them to admit humor. I’ll prove it to you. The very first ‘Polack’ joke I ever heard was told to me by a girl named Anna Soski who asked me if I knew who Alexander Graham Bellonski was – and when I said no – she told me he was the last of the great telephone Poles. Now, don’t smile, because it’s an ethnic joke and ‘PC’ doesn’t allow you to see the humor – it would be hypocritical of you. And you can’t tell your wife because she has a Polish heritage and wouldn’t appreciate the joke (although methinks you may not appreciate the Polish people’s ability to recognize humor and laugh at themselves.) But now I’m going to tell you why I didn’t laugh at the joke. When Anna told me, I didn’t know who ‘Poles’ were – she had to explain – then I laughed. Bottom line – loosen up. Us old people won’t be around much longer and you’ll be able to live in your ‘PC’ world in peace.

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Name : Jim Watson, Gender : M, Sexual Orientation : Straight, Race : White/Caucasian, Religion : Christian, Age : 69, City : Reisterstown, State : MD, Country : United States, Occupation : Retired, Education level : Over 4 Years of College, Social class : Upper middle class, 

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