Everyone see the problem now?
For those who don’t get the point, one of the top posts on all of Lemmy at the moment is doing this same thing. Mocking a (shitty) man by saying he “looks trans” now. That’s not ok.
Since it’s one of the most upvoted things on Lemmy at the moment it seems like an awful lot of people here don’t understand that that isn’t alright, so I’m trying to highlight it for them.
And I totally agree. My point was that “it’s problematic” or “X person was offended” is not the only dimension to this. Comedians still make problematic and offensive jokes, even despite many waves of cancel culture. People still enjoy those jokes. Because sometimes a joke is not problematic enough to matter. If a million people find a joke funny and 1 person is offended, is the joke fine? What about 1000:1? Everybody has different thresholds. But if we simply say “if a joke offends anybody, then it should not be said”, then that would erase a very large portion of comedy. I don’t think we want that.
To be clear, I think it’s fine to call out a joke as offensive. But I also think it’s fine for other people to believe that a joke is harmless. Both opinions are valid and can be voiced. These things can only be gauged at the population level.