Clint Eastwood...

So I know everyone often jokes within their clique of friends about each others nationality. But, things never get real intense. Clint Eastwood thinks that we should all be able to joke with each other about our nationality's making "harmless" jokes.

Check it.

Hollywood legend Clint Eastwood laments the loss of old-fashioned humour in today's society - insisting he should be able to tell harmless jokes about nationality without fear of people branding him a "racist".

The Dirty Harry star, 79, is adamant that modern culture has become humourless, and accuses younger generations of spending too much time trying to avoid being offensive.

He says, "People have lost their sense of humour. In former times we constantly made jokes about different races. You can only tell them today with one hand over your mouth or you will be insulted as a racist.

"I find that ridiculous. In those earlier days every friendly clique had a 'Sam the Jew' or 'Jose the Mexican' - but we didn't think anything of it or have a racist thought. It was just normal that we made jokes based on our nationality or ethnicity. That was never a problem. I don't want to be politically correct. We're all spending too much time and energy trying to be politically correct about everything."

http://www.imdb.com/news/ni0691861/

I have to say that I disagree with him. He fails to realize that though he may have made jokes and such within his groups you cannot just walk up to anyone on the street and say some "harmless joke" about their nationality. The same way you cannot make a public statement or do some cartoon strip that is ment to be harmless and say that it was not directed towards Obama. Things like this being said are much more than a simple harmless joke. They can escalate into things that are much more serve and there's no reason for it to even be taken there.