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Re:Creeping as a Service by Clewza313 on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @05:50PM (#26083557)
"If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him." -Cardinal Richelieu (supposedly)

Your view seems quite naive to me. Not only do times change, with previously acceptable things becoming unspeakable (eg. "retarded", "transsexual", "transvestite"), but with taking out of context and selective quoting you can distort the meaning of almost anything.

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Re:Creeping as a Service by seppin on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @08:15PM (#26084738)
Rewatching one of my favorite shows (Arrested Development) was rough. They made "Retard" and "Tranny" jokes left and right.
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Re:Creeping as a Service by rukuu001 on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @04:28AM (#26087153)
And the jokes about the Japanese characters as well.

They really leaned on the idea that you can get away with insensitive humor as long as it’s delivered by the crass idiot of the show (generally Gob)

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Re:Creeping as a Service by peruvian on Tuesday February 09, 2021 @11:55PM (#26085857)
Forget trans jokes - just typical gay jokes were common until the early 2010s.
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Re:Creeping as a Service by heavyset_go on Wednesday February 10, 2021 @03:59PM (#26094711)
They're still pretty common, at least on Family Guy reruns.
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