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L'autista
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Oddly, I just realized he died in prison at Butner, NC. For a brief time I lived in nearby Durham. Butner-Creedmoor was known then as a town where 90% of the residents worked to staff the mental hospital there, and nobody picked up hitchhikers there because everybody associated with the town was insane.

It’s like it’s come full circle, mang.

(The dude also bombed UC Berkeley, where I went to grad school.)
 

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L'autista
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I just don't understand cultures sometimes. Like what makes something offensive that a comedian says somehow the culpability of an entire nation state?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/11/...joke-singapore-apologizes-intl-hnk/index.html

Sure, it was a distasteful and pretty meh joke. But why would a Singapore-born comedian joking at a comedy show in the US about a missing Malaysian airline, with mostly Chinese victims, somehow be reason to march to the US embassy in Malaysia in protest?

Meanwhile, the Singapore government is apologizing to Malaysia for the comedian, which also makes little sense but at least a little more than marching on the US embassy:

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-singapore-comedian-mh370-joke-dca9f7565fdf4fd5752b87576d874b72

Is this just Malaysians exhibiting their own form of jihad?

Maybe @GordoDeCentral can explain this perspective of Malaysian offense to Americans for something a Singaporean did to me...
 

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I just don't understand cultures sometimes. Like what makes something offensive that a comedian says somehow the culpability of an entire nation state?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/11/...joke-singapore-apologizes-intl-hnk/index.html

Sure, it was a distasteful and pretty meh joke. But why would a Singapore-born comedian joking at a comedy show in the US about a missing Malaysian airline, with mostly Chinese victims, somehow be reason to march to the US embassy in Malaysia in protest?

Meanwhile, the Singapore government is apologizing to Malaysia for the comedian, which also makes little sense but at least a little more than marching on the US embassy:

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-singapore-comedian-mh370-joke-dca9f7565fdf4fd5752b87576d874b72

Is this just Malaysians exhibiting their own form of jihad?

Maybe @GordoDeCentral can explain this perspective of Malaysian offense to Americans for something a Singaporean did to me...

I just don't understand cultures sometimes. Like what makes something offensive that a comedian says somehow the culpability of an entire nation state?

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/06/11/...joke-singapore-apologizes-intl-hnk/index.html

Sure, it was a distasteful and pretty meh joke. But why would a Singapore-born comedian joking at a comedy show in the US about a missing Malaysian airline, with mostly Chinese victims, somehow be reason to march to the US embassy in Malaysia in protest?

Meanwhile, the Singapore government is apologizing to Malaysia for the comedian, which also makes little sense but at least a little more than marching on the US embassy:

https://apnews.com/article/malaysia-singapore-comedian-mh370-joke-dca9f7565fdf4fd5752b87576d874b72

Is this just Malaysians exhibiting their own form of jihad?

Maybe @GordoDeCentral can explain this perspective of Malaysian offense to Americans for something a Singaporean did to me...
@sallyinzaghi can.

But humor and sensitivities are different from place to place. Some cultures can take it, others can't.
 

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L'autista
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Have you checked how much victim you are

I've always called them 23andMeh

@sallyinzaghi can.

But humor and sensitivities are different from place to place. Some cultures can take it, others can't.
But it's not even so much about sensitivities. It's about attributing blame. And these Malaysian kids thought they should blame the US for a Singapore comedian who told a joke there. That's what I'm not following.
 

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