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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It’s probably a good thing that we all double-check context for that kind of thing.
It’s not that it was okay in the past, but that people who might have been offended even then would have felt too powerless/threatened to speak up and call you out on it.
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Having to be self-aware enough to do a context-check before making a joke is not an anti-humor culture. It’s a level-up because it allows more people the same freedom. If your relationship depth in the context allows you to make a joke, by all means do so.
My original cultural fragmentation point is actually a relationship depth point. We inhabit smaller and smaller micromilieus where we have enough relationship capital depth to be uninhibited in our humor.
This is a relating skills problem not a humor problem. Context collapse.
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If you previously only had white and black segregated audiences, there are now non-segregated crowds in comedy clubs, you either continue making in-group racist jokes and complain about lost sense of humor, or you level up and deepen your relationships with new *mixed* audience
