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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Like this. How is this better for humor overal?https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_59dce0d9e4b0208970d00545 …
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Replying to @APXHard @antoniogm
More raw material? Why does a serious discussion of appropriation and representation preclude making fun of those same things? It’s just a creativity challenge. It is entirely possible that there can be substance to those debates and potential for humor in them.
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Like I feel comfortable making the joke, “I’m going to appropriate me some tacos” at a Mexican restaurant. That’s a joke, but it doesn’t invalidate the idea of appropriation. And I wouldn’t make the joke in a context where it might trivialize a genuine appropriation concern.
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Replying to @vgr @antoniogm
I encourage you to poll your audience here. Is it A calling out existing offensive behavior, B more easily offended, C both or D neither.
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Not a question of opinion but analysis. I encourage you to actually think it through.
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