Do you find "Racist" and "Sexist" jokes

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Just wondering, as they are about the only jokes I really laugh at these days.

I was at what was called a "Community Classroom" in town the other week, and we were talking about Mayor's, and our former mayor was a Chinaman named Peter Chinn, and i made a joke that Peter Chinn had more Chin's than a chinese phonebook and they just looked at me funny.

I find them really funny! As long as the person telling the joke doesn't have that mind set when serious.

OK, well I thought it was certainly a funny and innocent enough joke. Maybe it was the setting in which you made the joke at a Community Classroom, that got you that reaction, that's all I can think of.

I don't care for those types of jokes.

OP, I'm not sure you understand the joke, even though you were the one who told it. The fact that the person it was about was Chinese seems irrelevant. It could have been about a person of any colour, so long as they were large in the face/neck area. The rest of the joke is a play on words, i.e. chin (part of the face) v Chinn (Chinese surname). I would not say this was a racist joke, perhaps joking about the name Chinn being common in China, nothing else. As I said, the joke was not about the mayor being Chinese, it's a joke about him being fat (which isn't very nice either). Did you think it was about his race, when you told it?

I like them, but I don't usually care for comedians who focus their comedy strictly on those sort of things. Then it gets old. I like all sorts of jokes, a lot of times the more graphic, or taboo the funnier! The point of a joke is to make it funny, even with things that might not seem funny if you weren't joking about them! ^^ If I don't like the joke it's because the person didn't make the joke funny enough, not because it's about a certain topic.

Definitely. I like jokes that fly in the face of political correctness quite a bit, but I think the best types of jokes are the really clever and intelligent ones. Somebody needs to find a way to resurrect Carlin and Hicks.

A lot of people are very confused about what racism and sexism are. "Racist" doesn't mean "using facts about races", and "sexist" doesn't mean "using facts about sexes".

For example, there is nothing racist about the "more chins than a Chinese phonebook" joke. It's just a pun which makes use of the fact that "Chin" is a relatively common Romanisation of a common Chinese name. If that joke is racist, then the joke "she got fired from the burger joint for putting her hair in a bun" is discriminatory against burgers because it makes use of the fact that buns are used to make burgers, or maybe it's discriminatory against hair because it makes use of the fact that there is a hairstyle called a "bun".

I do appreciate humor that flies in the face of political correctness.

Too many people blindly follow the popular opinion these days.