LogFAQs > #959249776

All this controversy both makes me laugh, and makes me incredibly sad. The laughter is because of the hilarious double standards on display here, coupled with the "woke culture" Twitter morons viciously fighting to see which arbitrary grouping of people is higher on the "victim scale". The sadness is because there was nothing vicious or out of line in his jokes, they were funny and they pointed out a really embarassing facet of how society behaves, and I think things like that video of the Netflix protest yesterday are proof that Dave was not wrong.

We have to get out of this mindset that every single person belonging to a "group" has had the same experience. People should be judged on their individual merits rather than by what "boxes" they tick. In terms of the "punching down" comment, comedy is about pointing out the absurdity in a situation, regardless of any other mitigating factors. When someone does something really dumb or embarassing, that is the root of comedy, and that's the beauty of comedy, you can find humour in powerful politicians saying something dumb, and you can find humour in how poor people dress when they are shopping at Wal Mart. Comedy is the great equalizer, and to try and censor jokes based on arbitrary classifications is a great way to kill all humour. If everyone is afraid to make a joke because someone might find it "offensive" and start a Twitter cancel culture campaign against them, we are going to lose a lot more than we would gain.

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