"Why did the chicken cross the road" is a racist joke
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Devilinurear
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Lol the reason why the joke is funny is because the punchline subverts your expectation.
It is not racist
It is not racist
from Wikipedia
The first known printing of this riddle was in 1847, in The Knickerbocker, a New York City monthly magazine:[1] ...There are ‘quips and quillets’ which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: ‘Why does a chicken cross the street?[’] Are you ‘out of town?’ Do you ‘give it up?’ Well, then: ‘Because it wants to get on the other side!’ The joke had become widespread by the 1890s, when a variant version appeared in the magazine Potter's American Monthly:[2] Why should not a chicken cross the road? It would be a fowl proceeding
The first known printing of this riddle was in 1847, in The Knickerbocker, a New York City monthly magazine:[1] ...There are ‘quips and quillets’ which seem actual conundrums, but yet are none. Of such is this: ‘Why does a chicken cross the street?[’] Are you ‘out of town?’ Do you ‘give it up?’ Well, then: ‘Because it wants to get on the other side!’ The joke had become widespread by the 1890s, when a variant version appeared in the magazine Potter's American Monthly:[2] Why should not a chicken cross the road? It would be a fowl proceeding
