"We now live in a society where homosexuals can have a bit of a chuckle at a joke at their expense and not get het-up by it"

I didn't realise there was a general consensus on how gay men feel. You know for certain that no gay guys picked that up a felt a familiar twinge at reading another joke at their expense? Bollocks do you. Just because nothing was said doesn't mean nothing was felt.

This is majority/minority prejudice, and as such still has the capacity to make the minority in question feel like shit. If you've personally had a lifetime of malicious treatment for your sexual leaning, the colour of your skin, the colour of your hair, it generally diminishes your ability to ignore the jibes. Simply because you're, as you so quaintly put it,'a carrier' doesn't immediately give you the right to insult someone for being a 'titting ginger'. I've got got an adopted daughter from Sri Lanka, but that sure as shit doesn't give me a right to call someone of that appearance a 'titting Paki'.

Prejudice is ugly, and it exists by and large because the majority condone it with their passivity. I've had strangers shouting 'FUCKING GINGER' at me on the high street of a town with no reaction from the surrounding pedestrians. I doubt very much it would have been the same reaction had they shouted 'FUCKING NIGGER'.
(wasps Optic Cockles, Sun 28 Feb 2010, 14:48, 1 reply)

Maybe you should try shouting "Fucking NIgger" at people
and try and make it acceptable.
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Mon 1 Mar 2010, 7:05, closed)

They tried that already
but ultimately it didn't prove very popular.
(wasps Optic Cockles, Mon 1 Mar 2010, 8:55, closed)

They do say that the 80s are back though...
Retro is in!

(Although perhaps reintroducing segregation would be a step too far)
( disasterprone "Pyjamas caused the Holocaust", Mon 1 Mar 2010, 10:15, closed)