The Differences Between Racism and Offense

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Sam Kinison and Andrew Dice Clay both almost word-for-word said very similar things but Sam Kinison you kind of got that he was trying to make light of something that was painful right whereas Andrew Dice Clay you just feel like there's just a bunch of racist sexist bastards in there yeah women should suck cock and just make sandwiches and that's it. There is a real real difference even though the words might actually be very similar so so so the question we were leading into though the break with is so is something offensive because I had this as a dimension how offensive the target or people find the joke.

In what might very well be the last episode before we're pulled off the air, Tamler outlines his data-free "theory" of what makes something offensive. What makes a joke about race, ethnicity, gender, disability funny sometimes, and deeply hurtful at other times? What makes Louis CK so goddamn funny and Andrew Dice Clay just...an asshole? Is Family Guy racist? Throughout the episode, David defends the victims of hatred and is a voice of empathy and reason, while Tamler drops the c-word multiple times, jumps to racist conclusions, and makes fun of David's partial Arab heritage.

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