Is anyone who finds the "Sum Ting Wong" / "Wi Tu Lo" joke funny automatically a racist?

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33. I agree

It's really about intent, I think. If someone finds that funny but also finds names like 'Ben Dover', etc, as I saw in one of the other threads here, then hey, the likelihood that they're taking it/intending it in a racist manner drops.

Now, if someone doesn't mean it in a racist way, but someone is actually getting offended by it and asks that it be stopped - it should be stopped, no question, and if someone doesn't stop in that situation - that ups the likelihood that they do in fact mean it in a racist way.

I remember as a little, little kid, the first time I read the joke title "'The Yellow River' by Ye Pee Long", I laughed, a lot. But back then, I literally had no idea there was such a thing as 'race issues' and it would have completely baffled me if someone tried to explain it to me (I was, I think, four or five at the time).