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From nodevember CoC: "Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you.
by mgkimsal 10y ago
From nodevember CoC:
"Be careful in the words that you choose. Remember that sexist, racist, and other exclusionary jokes can be offensive to those around you. Excessive swearing and offensive jokes are not appropriate for Nodevember."
Now... I'm no expert in humor, but aren't nearly all jokes partly "exclusionary" by definition? Maybe not - maybe I'm thinking of just a certain type of 'joke', but almost every sort of humorous observation I can think of could be "exclusionary" at some level, because there's some sort of external 'thing' which is the object of the joke.
But I may be way off base here.
- wglb 10y agoConsider self-deprecating humor. Or jokes about the perversity of the universe. Jokes about the weather. So I don't think that all jokes are exclusionary (with reference to those around us).
- mgkimsal 10y ago"self-deprecating" was the one I was thinking of right after I hit 'post'. "weather" jokes can take on a regional-aspect, potentially insulting or offending people in a particular region. And... I don't think I'm being too reaching in that reading, especially if (as we're lead to believe) "the web used to be promiscuous" is somehow 'slut shaming'. People can really find anything to be offended about. I'm sort of wondering if people have always been 'offended' by many things, and we've only just grown the communication platforms to really expose the victims, or if we've really just found more things to be offended about.