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Message: <blockquote data-quote="bx" data-source="post: 3279934" data-attributes="member: 113802">I don't think it's the same at all.Making jokes about clothing/music/hairstyles you don't like is not the same as saying an entire cultural/ethnic group deserve to be viewed with suspicion because they are likely to be criminals.I don't think anyone would take serious offence if someone made a joke about disliking hip-hop, or wearing clothes 3 sizes too big, or not being able to put a cap on the right way round.It was a shame that Johnno caused offence with his goth comment, but he did so innocently out of ignorance, and he obviously didn't mean it. Worlds apart from some of the bigotry (and in the case of the OP, outright racism) seen in this thread.</blockquote>