^If I am making jokes about things that others would find offensive, it's not because I think low of whatever the joke is about, i'm socially awkward, so I try to add a bit of humor to a more or less awkward situation. Perhaps I go over the line, but for my own sake, to get people to laugh is the only way I can feel comfortable in the situation be it at work or in public. If people don't like that, it's their problem and not mine. I don't think I should be made to feel like crap for making a joke about something that somebody else gets offended by, especially if I don't know that person well enough to know that they get offended by it. Also take into consideration that a lot of people do respond well to certain types of jokes, and that just makes it easier to make the jokes, regardless of if they're offensive. They're jokes, they're meant to be taken lightly, never to be taken in seriousness, otherwise they wouldn't be jokes. If that makes me a horrible person, so be it.
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in real life youre usually around friends or similar ppl so they usually uderstand the context of your joke. i can make a racist or gay joke and ppl know im not racist or homphobic. if theres a black guy around or a gay guy who i dont know well like at a party or somethin i might put some jokes in my back pocket cause they dont know me and they might get offended
on the internet tho its like a hundred totally different ppl with few similarities all in the same room and im not gonna worry about who is offended by what because we dont know each other. humor is different on the internet because of it, anyone who disagrees is a plebe lmao i tend to talk on the internet like i would in my buddies basement watchin a football gm and drinkin a few beers |
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I think open discussions (like this one) of when/why/if/how people may be offended by jokes is a good thing. Fans of artful "off-color" humor probably already know this scene from Louie in which a bunch of plebe comedians ask their gay friend about how he feels about the word ***got in comedy.
I suggest the whole thing but it really gets going at about 4:25 Louis CK Poker scene from episode 2 of LOUIE on FX every TUESDAY at 11pm - YouTube |
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I really try to stay as PC as possible with people that I don't know and especially with people that I'm trying to get to know. If someone I don't know that well starts cracking offensive or off colour jokes, it leaves a bad impression on me. |
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