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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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.