I Am Not Judging?

Hi,
They are playing with the words 'Homo sapiens' and 'homosexuals'.
eg If people were all homosexuals, we would become extinct.

'I am not judging' here means I am not making any moral judgements on whether one of these two 'groups of people' is good or bad.
Clive

Still do not it very well. Why did Joey say has anything to do with "moral judgement?" Or why did Joey think that Ross might think he was doing moral judgement? Thanks.

Hi,

People often make remarks about homosexuals that involve moral judgements. Joey wanted to make clear that he was not odoing that.

Clive

Close ...but not quite guys

Joey: If the Home sapiens were, in fact, "homo" sapiens.., is that why they extinct?
Ross: Home sapiens are people.
Joey: hi, i am not judging.

Joey thinks homo sapiens are an extinct form of people and is making a joke about maybe they are extinct because they are gay (homo)

However, Homo sapiens is the name for modern human beings. We are not extinct. Ross is pointing this fact out when he says 'Homo sapiens are people' - he means we are all homo sapiens, they are the people now, not a different species.
Joey doesn't understand this - he thinks he is being repremanded for making a comment about homo sapiens being homosexual - a common anti-prejudice idea is 'X are people too'
Therefore he replies 'I'm not judging' meaning 'I don't mean to be unkind about homosexuals.

...but of course, Ross was just pointing out that he was being dumb in thinking homo sapiens are extinct.

Not funny at all having to spell it out like this but it did raise a smile from me in the first place.

Hope this clears it up.

Thanks, Nona -- I interpreted this the same way you did but didn't ahve the energy to spell it all out. It's made more confusing by the fact that "homo sapiens" is sometimes, but not always, misspelled as "home sapiens," as though that's something different.

Also, "Hi, I'm not judging" should almost certainly be "Hey, I'm not judging." We use "hey" that way, not "hi."

I feel terribly sorry; but I have to confess that I made a mistake to mess up the dialoge. The correct version should be like this:

Joey: If the Home sapiens were, in fact, "homo" sapiens.., is that why they extinct?
Ross: Home sapiens are NOT people. (NOT was missing from my original quote)
Joey: hi, i am not judging.

I am very sorry for this again.

Osee, now it makes no sense at all! What about "Home sapiens" -- shouldn't it be "Homo sapiens"? "Home sapiens" does not mean anything.

I will double check this again.