I don't think the USA cares about Canada enough to do anything about it. I'm sure it feels threatened by a more reasonable and socialist health care system and the Royal Canadian Mountain Police, but Canada just chills out North of the US. It would be difficult even for the present monsterous administration to try to say that Canada is also responsible for 9/11 and have the sheeple buy it/Congress sit with their thumbs up their asses and let it happen. Not that they won't progress to that point soon, of course, but there's no point in going after Canada. Though it would give people in North Dakota and Minnesota something to do...
And thanks a lot, Cobnat, for having this topic brought in here.
It was probably due for it anyway, but I still blame you for being the catalyst.
About that Anal Cunt thing, I was just about to quote you, Hecc, but then I read the next post and you did it for me.
I support the right for people to deny the holocaust, but I also support the right of people to punch people who deny the holocaust in the face. Show them a couple of pictures of the gas chambers and piles of corpses and tortured people near death who look like corpses, ask them to explain that away, and then BAM, knock a few teeth out.
Frankly, I can't imagine any sort of remotely humorous joke made in response to 9/11, completely ignoring the deaths and whatnot. Seriously, what are you going to say? "Wow, that bug crashed into my windshield just like the terrorists crashed into the World Trade Center?" Cobnat: Your joke is anti-semetic/making fun of the ridiculousness of anti-semitism, but it's still pretty stupid.
A lot of my problem with these sort of jokes is that they're often stupid and unfunny. There's only so much you can do when you're playing with a stereotype, and there's a serious problem if you actually don't like some of those groups and find the humor in putting them down through your ignorance and assumption of their stereotype. And then some things are just out of line. Making fun of the mentally handicapped comes to mind right away. It's really fucking pathetic to have to stoop to the level where you have to insult someone who lacks the cognitive capacity to dress him/herself for whatever reason just to get laughs. I definitely believe Western culture needs to lighten up and relax about things in general, but there are lines with if crossed should be met with face punching.
I'd like to add some annoying subcultures to the list, though: Jocks, Emos, Skaters: All ok mostly if you're not with someone who associates with that group. (And by skaters, I mean the people who think bodily injury for cheap laughs is cool and mix it up with some skateboarding, who think that they're making some sort of political statement with their stupid "skateboarding is not a crime" stickers, or who wear skateboarder clothing lines so they can pretend to be skaters from a distance when they can't stay on a board. Maybe faux-skateboarders would have been a better term. Meh.)