Once you give in to the extreme end, you'll be giving in to more and more and more.
People tried canceling Weird AL bc he said "spastic" in Word Crimes, and that's supposedly ableist.
What's he to do? Tell you its only a joke so you can come back with your retort about "these types of people" for whom it's "always a joke"
Power has been given to the mobs and they keep moving the line and we're at their mercy of what is allowed and not allowed to not only be funny but be said at all
Even more maddening is that this little group of authoritarians spend so much time crying about fascism anytime someone is to the left or the right of the Democratic Party, without having a hard look in the mirror.
All these perpetually offended types weren't mad at Netflix when it peddled a movie that paid preteen girl actresses to twerk and grind on a floor for a film with "a message". But black man hurt fee fees by trying to find a middle ground no less, so let's bring out the tiki torches.
I play a fair amount of games and pretty much every day I see in chat something like this: "I hope your mother dies of cancer".
This does nothing to me. It doesn't upset me. Because context matters. It's some anonymous kid cowardly saying the nastiest thing they can think of. Which in male to male dialogue means going for the holiest of holiest: their mother.
Who cares? Even if it would offend me...so what? What happens next? Nothing. You don't have a right to not be insulted.
This will always be fine to say since it’s a joke, right?
Of course it’s not. Shit being couched as a joke still smells, looks, and tastes like shit.