This video by Ali G (Sascha Cohen) shows how easily people can be desensitized to things like racial hatred or anti-Semitism.

I am pretty sure that if you asked the members of the audience if they hated Jews they would say no.

http://inhonor.net/videos/uped/fl_video.php?f_num=92500

how easily people can be desensitized to things like racial hatred or anti-Semitism
The more serious racism is in general, the more seriously people are racists. If it becomes only joke, racism is dead.

You wanna go to a pub in Ireland sometime,they tell more Irish jokes than anything else.

Heck, that bunch of drunks would have sang,"throw the audience down the well."

The more serious racism is in general, the more seriously people are racists. If it becomes only joke, racism is dead.
Exactly. How often have we laughed at Sloth?