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
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
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So you don’t think there’s any truth to the idea that people are becoming more easily offended? Victimhood seems like a status symbol on the internet. Fewer racist jokes is great. But more cries of “racism!” For benign behavior seems like a real, destructive trend to me.
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