So I was arguing with this chick on the internet about how a joke cannot be fundamentally racist or offensive.
Her position was that racist jokes can cause offense and are hence wrong and should not be tolerated. If anyone does tolerate it, they've internalised racism to an extent that they find it funny.
My position was that a joke is a joke as long as it's meant to provoke laughter, race being used as joke content can be funny, racism by definition is not. Offense and humor are...
Racist jokes