say that it is becoming rather offensive.
I agree.
Many, many people have lost their lives and familes distraught for centuries due to the slave trade in America.
I think slavery is an abhorrent practice, even in humor, which is where I gather Ben Legume was coming from. (Legume = Bean? Is that you David Bean?)
The reason http://goldbarter.com/ won't allow auctions for humans on its site is because slavery is offensive, it is wrong, it is immoral, it is unworkable, and it is horrid.
On the other hand, people are free to make jokes about it. I choose not to do so, out of respect for those harmed by the enslavement process.
I suspect that a lot of the people posting jokes about it on this list are tax slaves of one sort or another. It might be that their humor is a sort of whistling past the graveyard.
Regards,
Jim http://www.awdal.com/
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