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[–] [email protected] 84 points 2 months ago (9 children)

This is why I only spread hatred towards people I actually hate, like the British.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 2 months ago

The only thing I can't stand is people who are intolerant of other people's cultures... And the Dutch!

[–] BugleFingers 11 points 2 months ago

Where did you find such hate? The British museum??

[–] TheBat 10 points 2 months ago

Bri*ish🤮

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

We FACKIN love it mate

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago

But the British aren't people...

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I prefer not offending anyone so I usually spread hatred towards people who don't actually exist, like the chilean.

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[–] crimsoncobalt 63 points 2 months ago

TIL there's a term for this: Schrödinger's joke

[–] BugleFingers 32 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I don't mind, rather, I enjoy dark humor, just not when it's thinly veiled actual beliefs. It's more supposed to be a way to show the absurdity of legitimate problems or be a easier way to broach tough topics.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, if it's truly just an attempt to not admit your bigoted beliefs, then it's a fair callout. But there are also cases where the insulting bigoted comment joke is supposed to make fun of the people who actually hold those beliefs, and those are fair game.

[–] MotoAsh 3 points 2 months ago

I think they fairly qualified their joke to indicate that they are explicitly excluding sarcasm from the scenario.

Though agreed that a good sarcastic or sardonic joke can be a great callout.

[–] [email protected] 30 points 2 months ago (1 children)
[–] LazaroFilm 9 points 2 months ago

And me acting offended was just a prank too. And no me picking your face is just a joke too.

[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's interesting how people try to redefine the word joke. If there's nothing funny about it, it's not a joke. So maybe they mean that they were trolling just for fun, which is not the same thing.

The second point is that if they say something horrible and then you call them an asshole and then they complain that you've gotten too sensitive, which is a very common chain of events, it actually shows that they've gotten too sensitive. If you're not supposed to care about what they said, why should they care about what you said? ... But of course actually they don't care about what you said, and they're just grandstanding. But even if we accept their internal logic just for the sake of argument, it still makes them giant assholes.

[–] Jiggle_Physics 8 points 2 months ago (1 children)

If there’s nothing funny about it, it’s not a joke

This doesn't excuse these people, but this is a bad way to define a joke. Funny is a subjective thing, a matter of taste, there is no objective "funny" to measure against to see if they qualify.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago (1 children)

A lot of language is subjective, and jokes are notoriously subjective. They translate horribly across cultures and languages.

If you have a different definition in mind, I'm all ears.

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[–] [email protected] 13 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (4 children)

If I say some fucked up shit as a joke, it's only because I failed to see how it was fucked up. Or I'm being sarcastic/facetious. If the former, and it's brought to my attention, I'll apologize and not repeat it. If the latter... 🤷🏻‍♂️

However, I once repeated a joke told to me by my transfem sister that she learned in her trans support group and was called a transphobe on Reddit. Sometimes shit doesn't matter, they just wanna be angry.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 2 months ago

Lots of jokes can be understood in different ways. On the internet nobody can tell if you are sincere, while a trans person at a trans support group definitely is. If I repeat an alt right talking point to my buddy, he knows I'm being sarcastic and I'm making fun of them. But you can't tell if I'm alt right or not. Kinda sad you actually have to explain this.

[–] captainlezbian 6 points 2 months ago

Yeah the sort of jokes from trans support groups often wind into the “this is probably not the sort of joke I’m comfortable hearing a random cis person tell”. Lots of jokes about dark aspects of our lives

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 months ago

It's just a dog whistle and you know exactly the kind of people who do this and what party they vote for

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago

Oh I'm sooooo sorrry if my abject cruelty offended your sensibilities and desire to be treated as a human being.

[–] bamfic 8 points 2 months ago

Lol couchfuckers

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 months ago

Gaslighting 101

[–] zik 7 points 2 months ago

If a comment is funny to the person giving it and offensive to the target it's not a joke, it's just bigotry.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

The end stage of this is Groypers screaming the N-word at large public events, then filming reaction videos of the results.

[–] mdurell 6 points 2 months ago

So .. Harley's beliefs are a joke. Got it!

[–] AgentGrimstone 6 points 2 months ago

She's being so sensitive

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago
[–] BetaBlake 4 points 2 months ago

Conservative humor

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Wait, did you do that or is this just a joke? This gets meta pretty soon

[–] Etterra 2 points 2 months ago

Okay NGL, I'd totally marry a bread witch.

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