Current Events > Know what I always wondered about jokes and sensitive racial issues..

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Sometimes, I'll think of a catch all joke for a relevant situation and I'm like "that shit's funny" but then I realize that the person it would be directed at has a racial history where it could be taken the wrong way.

I initially thought of the joke without that factoring in, but now that I'm aware it could factor in, how insensitive is it to still tell the joke and hope the person sees it the original way you intended?

Edit: The rest is more so personalized revolving around me. So you can stop reading and answer here.

I don't believe in everything needing to be censored and people needing to be babied, but what I hate more is the idea that something I meant to lighten the mood will turn into bringing up something that makes someone in the room feel shitty. That would be me failing horribly at what I intended to do.

I don't care what someone says to me, if it's not malicious. But I know sometimes in my head it triggered a thought that brought me down and I gotta recalibrate. I only hang around people I feel want the best for me, which makes that easier to do, thankfully. I just don't want to trigger that feeling for others for a laugh. I can get laughs without sacrificing someone.

I guess this turned into more of a rant. Read it if you feel like and share your input. Or read pieces of it and call me a sensitive snowflake or whatever. This also might come of hypocritical because how much I try to dig into the psychology of users here in a negative way when they are mean to others, but this is the internet baby, wild wild west rules.

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