| Where there's a positive side of things...there's usually a | | | | anymore...got a gun...and came back on campus and |
| negative side, and that applies to humor as | | | | the shooting began! In my view, a lot of this started |
| well.Unfortunately, the negative side of humor can be | | | | with teasing...JUST TO GET A LAUGH!All of us have |
| ugly...it can hurt feelings, and can be damaging and | | | | been teased in school, I know I have. Being Hispanic, I |
| destructive! There are people who will do almost | | | | remember I was teased because I didn't speak or |
| anything for money. There are people in this world | | | | write the English well. Kids would make fun of me...just |
| who will do almost anything for power. There are | | | | to get a laugh! It was so upsetting to me, that I didn't |
| people in this world who will do almost anything for | | | | want to go back to school. Everyone knows kids can |
| fame. And, there are people in this world who will do | | | | be awful. I was always reluctant to give an oral book |
| almost anything to get a laugh...and if they hurt | | | | report for fear that the kids would laugh at me! I will |
| somebody in the process...so what?Many years, the | | | | always remember those awful days of ridicule and |
| senior George Bush said, "What we need is a kinder, | | | | hate!If you have ever been put down, by those who I |
| gentler nation." He said it again at the Coretta King | | | | refer to as "the jokesters and people of put-down," |
| funeral in early 2006. What he was talking about, in my | | | | who enjoy getting a laugh at somebody else's |
| view, was what we are doing to each other as a | | | | expense, then you know how awful it can sting! I'm |
| People! Racism; road rage; discrimination; gossip; | | | | reminded of a comedian (so he calls himself), who |
| resentment; rude; cruel; jealousy; disrespect; | | | | goes around the country, putting down and making fun |
| manner-less; thoughtless; thankless; attitude and the list | | | | of the disabled and the challenged...just to get a laugh! |
| goes on and on!In my view, this country is suffering | | | | What kind of humor is this? What kind of people go to |
| from a big fat attitude problem! What are parents | | | | see this JERK, who find laughing at challenged people |
| teaching their kids...to be corrupt? What happened to | | | | amusing! This so-called comedian and his followers are |
| manners and respect? I haven't seen a local news | | | | what I call "the little minds of the world!" They're |
| broadcast on television for years! Why? It's the same | | | | warped...all of them, who would do something like this!A |
| old broken record...only the names change. The same | | | | big fat attitude is in the making, and as a country, we're |
| old tired stories...who murdered who...who robbed | | | | doing very well! Where is this country headed when |
| who...another woman was raped or assulted, and there | | | | we allow this kind of thing, that is, making fun of the |
| is more and more corruption! All of this gets old after a | | | | disabled and the mentally challenged? Nothing can be |
| while. You have to wonder if there is any good news | | | | done about it, because it is an issue of free speech. |
| in America. Yes, there is, but good news doesn't sell | | | | Will you allow your children to see this so-called |
| newspapers, and the television ratings will fall if there is | | | | comedian?* I don't see anything funny or amusing |
| no bad news!I think this society is turning more and | | | | about a person who has suffered an illness; an |
| more negative and all that negativity rubs off on the | | | | accident and who will spend the rest of his or her life in |
| children and grandchildren. There so much negativity in | | | | a wheelchair.* I don't see anything funny or amusing |
| this society, that some of the people who are | | | | about a person who was born with a deformity.* I |
| supposed to be leaders and model citizens in the | | | | don't see anything funny or amusing about a blind |
| community are being busted for one thing or another. | | | | person who is struggling to cope.* I don't see anything |
| Corruption; DWI; bad behavior in general. Two world | | | | funny or amusing about a person who has a speech |
| famous (Indy) racing brothers here Albuquerque, N.M. | | | | impediment, hearing loss or severe burns!Regrettably, |
| got arrested for bad behavior against the police | | | | humor can play a part in all this, because there the "little |
| recently! The local newspaper, in an editorial, had some | | | | minds of the world," that I spoke of earlier, who laugh |
| pretty nasty words to say about the two brothers, | | | | at all this to get their kicks...UNTIL A TRAGEDY |
| who resisted arrest! These are the type of people that | | | | HAPPENS TO THEM! But, there IS a solution to all this, |
| the kids look up to...role models...what went | | | | and it lies with the parents. Parents have to teach their |
| wrong?How does humor fit into all this bad behavior! | | | | kids to respect others...teasing or the put-down of |
| Put down of others...just to get a laugh! Ethnic | | | | others is out of bounds! Parents have to tell their kids |
| jokes...just to get a laugh! Racial slurs...just to get a | | | | to stay away from negative people, so they don't |
| laugh! Dirty jokes...just to get a laugh! Teasing of | | | | become negative themselves. All of this is no laughing |
| others...just to get a laugh! These are big black eyes | | | | matter!Negative and dirty humor is NOT acceptable to |
| for America, and it seems that mutual respect is a | | | | me! A person doesn't have to be dirty to be funny. |
| thing of the past!Another big black eye for the country, | | | | And yes, there's a lot of negative humor out there, and |
| is a few years ago, when we heard of the violence | | | | it can sting if you are on the receiving end of it. And, a |
| on school campuses. Injuries and people were shot | | | | big fat attitude problem in this country is no laughing |
| and murdered on school campuses, which is a | | | | matter, either! George Bush, Sr. is right...we DO need a |
| disgrace in this country! What are parents teaching | | | | kinder and gentler nation! But, it's going to have to start |
| kids today. Some of the violence was due to the | | | | with the parents and each and every one of us...to |
| teasing of others, and some students were teased so | | | | make a terrible wrong in this country...A RIGHT! |
| much that one or two of them couldn't take it | | | | |