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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Replying to @antoniogm @vgr
Vgr what do you think the mean free path is now? Cause I see he same trend as Antonio. Everyone is offended all the time, and even saying this offends people.
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Replying to @APXHard @antoniogm
Dunno, but not zero. I’ve not personally felt constrained in writing the kinds of funny blog posts or tweets I’ve wanted to. What I think is happening is that some people are gaining and others are being constrained, with net increase in humor. Just not from the same old crowd.
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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
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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Replying to @APXHard @antoniogm
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.
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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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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
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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No, for the most part they’re just getting more comfortable calling out people who have always offended them. To put it crudely, you no longer have to force a laugh at the boss’s jokes because he is no longer the all-powerful boss. Suddenly world feels humorless to the bosses.
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