A good measure of cultural fragmentation is how far on average a joke has to travel out of context for it to cause offense When jokes hit a mean free path of one degree on social graph you’ve hit anarchy
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I’ve self-censored to avoid upsetting the blueb tribe. But maybe that stuff just legitimately isn’t as funny. Stuff I generally enjoy laughing it is usually more absurd.
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Example: what do you call a person who thinks everyone with brown hair and brown eyes is Chinese? A naive Asian classifier. I wouldn’t make this joke in most places. Too risky.
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