February 18, 2018
Can't Anyone Take a Joke?
We have two adult daughters. Both are married with children of their own. One of them lives overseas in Italy. (Don't ask. It's a long story – but it gives us a great place to visit). The other lives ten minutes away in the same upper-middle-class suburban town as my wife and me, in the eastern part of the country. One of our local daughter's neighbors is a broadcaster for a sports radio talk show. He and his wife are perfectly nice, normal people. Their young daughter plays with our daughter's six-year-old several times a week. They are remarkably unremarkable, regular in every sense.
A few days ago, he made an on-air a quip in which he mimicked the stereotypical speaking style of a foreign ethnic group. It was a joke, the kind of thing every one of us has done a thousand times, in reference to any one of a dozen or two well known ethnic and national...(Read Full Article)