You say that many silent complaints were hiding behind the 2 posted ones. Well, that's an incredible deduction given that the two posted ones were not genuine!!
Are you saying the two posted comments were not, in fact, posted by the people concerned? Or that they were, in fact, simply jokes? If the former, then I'd be grateful for the evidence. If the latter, then I'd have expected jokes to be signed as such. We have plenty of smilies.
The hypocrisy of the recent comments is made all the more stark to me, given the nature of the above joke that you yourself posted. (amongst quite a collection of yours which ridiculed Irish people, blonde women... etc, etc)
Hmmm. Well, the one you chose was a very light one about religion - not race, and I'm sorry if you feel anything I've ever posted has ridiculed anyone. All those were simply copied and pasted from another site, and are all in the public domain. None has ever been described as racist.
I'm also sorry you can't see the difference between bathos and racism. I'm afraid I cannot see how employing the epithet 'spade' in direct reference to Nelson Mandela can be seen as anything other than racist language, at the very least.
Not petulant Ian
Well, describing people as becoming 'jokes' sounds a tad petulant. And I know you don't like being the butt of jokes yourself...