Insensitive and Offensive humor

[Littlejoe]

Just to show it is not a one sided thing...

Conservatives are acting all offended and upset about this:


https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/04/s...-dan-crenshaw/


1. I don't really find the joke funny. It was pretty stupid in fact. I would have made a pirate joke.
2. It was a joke. If we conservatives are telling liberals to lighten up and not get upset about every little joke or comment, then we need to do the same and not be hypocrites.

https://fox8.com/2018/11/05/snls-pet...tan-ied-blast/

[LeaC]

To be honest though, I think our sense of humor develops as a coping mechanism. At some point, you're swimming in negativity and it's nice to find SOMETHING, ANYTHING to laugh about. But as that sense of humor takes hold, you begin to regard many taboo subjects as joke-worthy. And...then people think you're super screwed up in the head.

This. I can laugh at any number of taboo subjects, and if a joke is funny enough I can ignore the insensitive parts. But there is a limit, and while it is a coping mechanism, it's not always a healthy one. But really, if someone makes a bad joke, I'd rather ignore them than go on the offensive.

[Cow Poke]

This thread was prompted by the discussion in the Don Lemon thread, mostly this post:



I don't think I've mentioned this on here, but I'll mention it here because I think it's relevant to what I'm trying to say: I'm actually on the autism spectrum. I also struggle with depression to varying degrees (sometimes pretty severely). All that to say this: I find humor in virtually anything; call it a coping mechanism. I will readily acknowledge that this is a character flaw and I ought not make light of everything, regardless of my excuse for it. Additionally, I often have trouble seeing why something is offensive to certain people, and vice versa. Sometimes I'll bounce a possible joke (for facebook or whatever) off my wife because, although I find it inoffensive, I sometimes genuinely cannot tell if other people won't. She's prevented me from commenting numerous times this way.

All that to say this: I don't find the "plantation" joke offensive. If this is inappropriate of me (and it may well be), it's an example of my sinful tendency to joke about everything, not a sign that I'm racist. And yet in today's political climate, I fully expect the former explanation to be laughed off and dismissed, without any benefit of the doubt being given. (sometimes the "you should know if something is offensive" will not be applicable to me. Sorry, can't help it) This makes me afraid to speak up at times, because a joke or a question that I have could so easily be construed by someone as horribly offensive, when clueless little me over here didn't intend that at all and frankly can't even understand it.

If you're going to start a thread about me, the least you can do is let me know it's here!

[Cow Poke]

This is not really a character flaw unless we all have the same flaw. Finding humor in painful or offensive matters is a quite common way for cops, ER people and many others. I did not read the thread, but it appears that Carp has jumped into another foolish extreme. In other words it ain't you, Zy.

So true - the way you can know that an event is REALLY tragic is when First Responders DON'T joke or mock it -- like when a baby is killed in a car wreck....

[Cow Poke]

Just to show it is not a one sided thing...

Conservatives are acting all offended and upset about this:


https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/04/s...-dan-crenshaw/


1. I don't really find the joke funny. It was pretty stupid in fact. I would have made a pirate joke.
2. It was a joke. If we conservatives are telling liberals to lighten up and not get upset about every little joke or comment, then we need to do the same and not be hypocrites.

I thought the idiot doing the mocking was so goofus as not being worthy of... he was just showing what a moron he is.

[Jedidiah]

If you're going to start a thread about me, the least you can do is let me know it's here!

CP there is a thread about you in civics.

[Cow Poke]

CP there is a thread about you in civics.

Just ONE!?!?!

[Sparko]

Just to show it is not a one sided thing...

Conservatives are acting all offended and upset about this:


https://dailycaller.com/2018/11/04/s...-dan-crenshaw/


1. I don't really find the joke funny. It was pretty stupid in fact. I would have made a pirate joke.
2. It was a joke. If we conservatives are telling liberals to lighten up and not get upset about every little joke or comment, then we need to do the same and not be hypocrites.

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SNL had Crenshaw on and let him poke at Davidson.



https://www.lifezette.com/2018/11/pe...eam-up-on-snl/

[Littlejoe]

That's pretty cool of SNL. I didn't know they had it in them...

[Cow Poke]

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SNL had Crenshaw on and let him poke at Davidson.



https://www.lifezette.com/2018/11/pe...eam-up-on-snl/

And Crenshaw appeared to be having fun, for real, and not in a mean-spirited way at all.

[Sparko]

And Crenshaw appeared to be having fun, for real, and not in a mean-spirited way at all.

like I said earlier, I didn't find the joke offensive in the first place. Just bad. Apparently Crenshaw felt the same. I didn't get the feeling that Davidson was mocking his service in the joke at all.

[Cow Poke]

like I said earlier, I didn't find the joke offensive in the first place. Just bad. Apparently Crenshaw felt the same. I didn't get the feeling that Davidson was mocking his service in the joke at all.

I had never seen Davidson before - I don't get him at all - he's like a very immature junior high boy doing an imitation of a gay man.

[Sparko]

I had never seen Davidson before - I don't get him at all - he's like a very immature junior high boy doing an imitation of a gay man.

me either. I haven't watched SNL in 20 years now.

[Cow Poke]

me either. I haven't watched SNL in 20 years now.

I was never really a fan, except for... was Dana Carvy part of that crew? I would catch him from time to time.

[Sparko]

Crenshaw wrote a very nice opinion piece about the incident in the Washington post.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opini...=.47e948ce3ae6