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Consider 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

• 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.