If you've read our previous Discussion Discussions, or the Comment Of The Fortnight-Ish columns before those, by now you're likely familiar with how they work: we artfully (we hope) and circuitously (uh, yeah) lay out an argument for how best to conduct oneself down there, and hopefully by the end you're nodding and…
OK, various malcontents, you've finally broken us down, and we're going to admit something deeply uncomfortable. Here it is:
"Ultimately, who gives a shit?"
Let's talk meat.
To kick off today's discussion, here are two exceptionally great, fairly recent comments for you to examine:
In recent articles on commenting we've discussed freshness and originality, and now, having tackled those, we're prepared to move on to the slightly weightier topic of race relations in Western culture. Well, not quite. But we are going to talk about racist jokes.
Let's talk about originality. When a joke makes you laugh, who exactly gets to claim credit for being a funny comedian?
