Once upon a time, racists used to tell blacks that they should not take racist talk too seriously

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And the typical reaction of a Jew-basher to a Jew protesting against Jew-bashing is "Don't lay that PC crap on me" or "you lack a sense of humour".

I just had this same unpleasant experience; not, of course, for the first time, but - and this is what is horrible - at the hands of a supposed friend. I took a screencap, just in case. privatemaladict seems to think that jokes about Catholics being prevented from breeding or hate talk about the Church amounts to protected speech, and that I should not have pointed out that such talk is bigoted and intolerant. Then she locked the post against me: the usual reaction of people who have no arguments.

This has been a long friendship as Internet friendships go, and I wish it did not have to end like this. But I will take that kind of shit from nobody. I do not accept it about Jews, I do not accept about blacks or Chinese, I do not even accept about Muslims (although I do not like Islam), AND I DO NOT SEE WHY ON EARTH I SHOULD BE EXPECTED TO TOLERATE IT WHEN IT IS AIMED AT ME.

Comments

[privatemaladict.livejournal.com]

It wasn't aimed at you. You, on the other hand, aimed nasty comments directly at my friends.

You want to defriend me? Go ahead. I'm sick of your bullshit anyway. I've copped more than my fair share of rudeness from you. I don't need this.

[blue-sky-day.livejournal.com]

It is protected speech - but that means protected from legal reprisals, not from criticism or debate.

What was/were the comment(s), precisely.

[fishlivejournal.livejournal.com]

[hugs].
The simple rule of 'joke about your own' is good. The best Irish jokes are told by the Irish, the best Jewish jokes told by Jews; if a member of the group isn't prepared to say it - then it probably isn't funny.