• outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    8 months ago

    in poor taste

    So, whether or not this is a bit¹: the potential harm from edgy jokes is the same as the harm from dystopian fiction warning us about bad things that could happen. The potential for harm is that dipshits with zero self awareness and less media literacy will just blindly copy the thing. Like how siliconbvalley billionaires have tried to do almost literally every part of ‘snow crash’.

    If my character in the bit is shitty and not someone you would want to be at any point, or I’m on a server defederated from beehaw and world; this danger is mitigated.

    And for those who have actually been through shit, your criticism here comes off as privileged, colonizing, and completely misunderstanding what humor is, because you’ve never had a use for it. It comes off as ‘if i laugh at myself i am lesser, because the only way i know how to laugh is by sorting groups and affirming my group’s position at the top’. And thats a really bad fucking look. Im not saying shut up; im saying read up on the topic.

    ¹just for you; I’m never gonna tell now.