I don't like "sick jokes" much.
For similar reasons to those stated in the Star article. I'd be quite upset if people were egging each other on to make jokes about my recently-deceased relative or classmate. Oh well.
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giant_squid, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 19:45,
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This /\
And I am sure that the people making the jokes wouldn't find it so funny if it was their friend/relative. Internet anonymity seems to bring out the worst in people.
(, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 19:51, Reply)
^indeed this^
A good example was the reactions of the regulars on b3ta when people started taking the piss out of Tony Hart. So quick to make jokes when it's not something close to them but so quick to condemn when it is.
Sickipedia is fine for ambiguous jokes - general xenophobia, racism, etc that can be funny if a) it's not serious and b) the joke itself is funny and not just moronic name-calling, but targetting jokes at a recently deceased individual is, for me at least, too far. Especially when you consider that she was a normal kid and not a celebrity (where some piss taking can be made of the 'persona' rather than the person)
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thiswasmyclone, Sat 7 Feb 2009, 20:36,
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I absolutely agree with everything you said
Alot of the jokes make me feel very uneasy... esspecially racist jokes that are just abusive and not even funny,
but you do have to wonder whether there is only a media outrage because it's a good-looking girl in question. It always seems to be the way.
(, Sun 8 Feb 2009, 5:48, Reply)