[ SECRET POST #4862 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4862 ⌋

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[(Anonymous)]

I can see both sides. As a person who... has been on the receiving end of a fair amount of prejudice (er, well, you know what I mean), there are jokes that follow that formula that I do find funny, but the tone is important.

It doesn't imply bigotry doesn't exist, but it DOES imply that the speaker is so in their bubble as to be unaware of it, which... like, I can definitely laugh (have to, some days) at people who mean well but have their heads up their ass. But, while there are examples I laugh at, there are also times when it really is just, yeah, flinching from something that then doesn't happen.

So I really don't blame other marginalized people-- especially those whose struggles I don't share and can't ever fully know-- for hating this type of humor. When it doesn't land, it's Bad, and we deal with enough out in the real world. But I don't judge people for laughing at it, either. Sometimes I don't and sometimes I do.

(No idea how much of the difference is my mood when I hear an example vs how much is whether the writer of the joke is themselves marginalized or not and I am responding to something different in the tone)