As I commented the other day over at NA Health, there's at least an outside chance that our local medical blogger might return to commenting on health issues some day ... but not before the right wing venom's all depleted.
Sorry, Doc -- gotta call you out on this one. Without further comment, here is today's "healthy" humor.
A most distressing knock-knock joke
Even though I disagree most of the time with HB, I..., well, I never expected this from him. Is the man going nuts? Or is this his true self?
ReplyDeleteHe posted in early this morning. I'm hoping that he wasn't totally awake when he posted it and realizes how repulsive it is. We'll learn a lot about him by what he does with the joke now.
ReplyDeleteRoger,
ReplyDeleteI posted this on nahealth but thought I should post it here as well. I wondered why nahealth had so many responses, but then I saw you initiated the link and the hate-filled responses. I should have known.
I am extremely disappointed at your hypocrisy and elitist attitude. I really was hoping you were going to stay above this, but I can see I was wrong
If being offensive to a few individuals is a reason to remove posts, you would not have a blog.
You demean, critisize, antagonize, name-call, and repeatedly post bigoted views especially to people of faith.
Yet this is acceptable.
You specifically stated you would not vote for Palin simply because of her religious views.
You got kicked out of a council meeting for a really horrible remark.
And now you judge a post that was intended as humor, posted as humor, and with the contributor even acknowledging and apologizing to those few it may have offended.
Your bigoted, elitist attitude is unbelieveable, but your ego is evidently so huge you'll never see it.
I have never once seen you acknowledge or apologize to anyone you have offended. Or do you not believe you have ever offended anyone.
Very shameful and even worse than all4word.
Bluegill so far has seemingly remained above this, but we'll see if he chimes in as well.
Hi, Steve.
ReplyDeleteI notice your profile has been deleted, or is otherwise inaccessible. Certainly you remember that we have a reality-based identity policy at this blog.
Your comments today stand, but won't next time unless I know who you agree. It's the non-cowardly way.
Ciao
R
Two things.
ReplyDeleteRoger didn't provide a hate filled response. He was appalled by an obviously racist joke. I cannot, for the life of me, imagine anyone not being appalled by that joke. The fact that it is still online right now is amazing.
Secondly, what one feels about Roger is not relevant to this discussion. Referring to him as an elitist because he finds a racist joke to be offensive is beyond the beyond. It was a racist joke on a public site. It got the response it deserved.
There was no racism in posting the caricature and joke any more than there is bigotry in posting the caricature Roger has up today.
ReplyDeleteFrom Wickipedia:
Racism, by its simplest definition, is the belief that race is the primary determinant of human traits and capacities and that racial differences produce an inherent superiority of a particular race. People with racist beliefs might hate certain groups of people according to their racial groups. In the case of institutional racism, certain racial groups may be denied rights or benefits, or get preferential treatment. Racial discrimination typically points out taxonomic differences between different groups of people, even though anybody can be racialised, independently of their somatic differences. According to the United Nations conventions, there is no distinction between the term racial discrimination and ethnic discrimination.
Thanks for the definition.
ReplyDeleteCould you look up another one so we all can share in the meaning?
DISINGENUOUS
BTW, I credited today's caricature to KAL at The Economist.
So as long as the caricature and bigoted comments are attributed to someone else, then it is perfectly fine to post them. Your definition fits this situation very well.
ReplyDeletedis·in·gen·u·ous
–adjective lacking in frankness, candor, or sincerity; falsely or hypocritically ingenuous; insincere
C'mon Roger, admit that you instigated and contributed to this whole racial uproar over an innocent joke posted on joke day.
What is really even more disappointing is that I have just learned that HB refers to you as a friend. With friends like you,
You know the phrase.
casualobse(r)ver -
ReplyDeleteOf course Dan is my friend. Any one who's been here any length of time knows that, hence the conversational nature of my initial reference to something (i.e., knock-knock) that Dan is far too intelligent to pretend wouldn't prompt the uproar it has, irrespective of whether I signposted it or not.
Thus my suggestion that you define disingenuous, since both you AND Dan are being precisely that in trying to make me the "evil" (how delicious!) party in all this.
While I'm at it, are you the same Steve who posted previously? Thanks.
Hey Healthblogger - try some Islamic "humor" next time, preferably skewing their religion, then we'll see how people respond, it would be interesting... But just "humor" you know.
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