
Older people are always saying that younger generations “can’t take a joke” because people no longer accept racist or bigoted jokes. This post talks about that as well as the theory of humor, benign violation theory:

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Older people are always saying that younger generations “can’t take a joke” because people no longer accept racist or bigoted jokes. This post talks about that as well as the theory of humor, benign violation theory:
Heather Thompson Day posted this perfect advice on how to deal with inappropriate sexual "jokes", which are usually just sexual harassment. It's a great tip because it works for well this, but will also work for racist, sexist, bigoted, etc "jokes": Source: Heather Thompson Day (via: Geek Girls)
This "90s Movies Sucked" comic by Dublah is about when you rewatch old 90s movies without seeing them in decades and they seem super dated and awkward, bordering on outright offensive. This has happened to me a few times too. Some of the old jokes come across super sexist, racist,…
LOL! These made me laugh more than they probably should have! They're jokes written by little kids that are so bad they're actually hilarious! The jokes are submissions from kids at Bad Kids Jokes: {{CODE1}} {{CODE1}} Source: Bad Kids Jokes (via: Geek Girls)
One of the things I’ve noticed is that a lot of racist jokes aren’t actually jokes– they’re just an opportunity to be racist under the guise of humor.
Others might be funny, but don’t actually require the racist part to work– one tip on that is when you could swap out whatever ethnicities in the joke.