Hall: Jokes That Aren’t Funny Ha-Ha

I’m probably just behaving like a silly Danish senior citizen, but a reader offended me the other day. A fellow elder emailed me what he considered a joke about black people and brown people going to heaven where they stole the Pearly Gates. I was doubly irked, both because my children and grandchildren are part Mexican and because the careless jokester thought I was the sort of oddball who would enjoy a joke that paints my little peeps as thieves just because of what color they are. When I emailed the guy back and called him out on it, he asked me an allegedly naive question, one I frequently hear from people my age. Bear in mind, racist jokes were rampant during our childhood in the 1940s and 1950s/ Bill Hall , Lewiston Tribune. More here.

Question: Do you ever call people out on tasteless jokes?