No no no, you've got it all wrong.
by
FieldingBandolier
07/22/2008, 7:24 PM #
You don't understand: Jack's being ironic.
As long as you're being ironic, you can say whatever racist, sexist, bigoted ol' thing you can think of, because what you're doing is pretending trying to make a point about either the people who say such things and mean them, or behavior in-kind on the part of the person you've directed to comment to.
So just remember, Arch, the majick phrase: "I was being ironic."
It's like a moral justification trump-card that allows you to insult with impunity, while pretending to disown it.