a good way to make sure nobody ever maps you to ingroup so strongly that they feel horribly betrayed and compelled to destroy you when it turns out that you think for yourself sometimes is to make jokes built on the humor models of different social groups
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You know of this twitter thread eh? It’s a classic. Jokes DELIMIT ingroups.https://mobile.twitter.com/5thcircappeals/status/763098172633657344 …
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ooh i did not. lovely, thanks
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That is a very good point. I agree. One use of telling jokes (as opposed to stand-up, or other kinds of things that make us laugh) is to signal membership in a particular group.
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"I have made a statement whose acceptability is premised on a shared agreement of who it is acceptable to make into a victim" is indeed unlikely to travel well among groups, especially ones filled with the genuinely victimized.
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