jonwvara 

Thanks to Tom and KonAaron Snake who got it exactly right. It's easy to write things in this sort of semi-anonymous public forum (without any intention to be offensive) that you would instinctively know not to do in the real world. Some of that may be due to confusion about who gets to make jokes: if you're a member of a minority, you can freely joke around about the characteristic stereotypes of your own minority--but only with other members of that group. Think of it as a big happy family gathered for a holiday meal--the members can laugh about how uncle Bob is really stingy, cousin Sue is a bad driver, etc. But you wouldn't joke that way if someone from outside the family was visiting, and if the visitor made those sorts of jokes it would be seen as pretty rude. KS is right--it's about decency, not censorship.