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Psst: he's not really being an escrow. >At best your joke is insensitive, and at worst it's ignorant of the harmful reality of the situation. Please lighten

Psst: he's not really being an escrow. >At best your joke is insensitive, and at worst it's ignorant of the harmful reality of the situation. Please lighten up. I'm tired of this internet culture where people feel the need to reprimand each other for obvious (if sometimes awkward/immature) attempts at humor, complete with do-goodist posturing and condescension. We get it, you're a good, tolerant person. Now try to have some empathy and realize that this particular jokester missed his mark. This particular joke is harmless. Just downvote the joke you don't like and move on with your life, FFS. It's not normal to be this upset by such trivial things. (inb4 "microaggression")

bicubic 10y ago
My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. I come to HN to escape the drivel that reddit's tech/programming subreddits have become due to comments like that outnumbering meaningful discussion.
- omginternets 10y ago
  >My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. We're in perfect agreement about this, hence "downvote the joke you don't like and move on with your life". Multi-paragraph reprimands are adding to the noise. And more to the point: the parent comment wasn't complaining about noise but rather adopting a nauseatingly moralizing posture.
  - chickenfries 10y ago
    And yet.. you're doing the exact same thing.
TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago
Internet culture? Social norms exist in the “real” world too. Some people would rather avoid descending into puerile jokes.
- omginternets 10y ago
  Yeah, agreed. They'd also rather read interesting discussions than condescending reprimands. You know, it does violate social norms to be a moralizing do-goodist who can't help but to intervene over PC drivel... right?
throwaway_3452 10y ago
Yeah it's all a joke to you. Go ahead call all the refugees cockroaches and animals while you're at it so you can live in your little pussy grabbing bubble while little kids die of chlorine attacks. You need to learn about real people's suffering which goes beyond getting pwned on your video game addiction, white boy.
- omginternets 10y ago
  Yeah, that's exactly what's going on in this thread. Good job. You're simply dripping with tolerance, compassion, and non-racist rhetoric aren't you?
- sctb 10y ago
  This violates the guidelines for being egregiously uncivil, so we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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cooper12 10y ago
Yeah I'm aware it's a joke, which you might have noticed with the three different instances of the word "joke" in my comment. And harmless to you maybe? It's as harmless as a joke about male rapes in prison. It normalizes the dehumanization of people and turns sexual exploitation into a punchline. Maybe you wouldn't find it so funny if someone was threatening to spread your (hypothetical) daughter's nude pictures and ruin her life. Downvoting doesn't do much when other people will agree with and upvote the cheap joke, you're just basically telling me to "tsk tsk" under my breath and walk away; that's surely gonna have an effect on the commenter or anyone reading. (just like the -4 on my comment made me think twice about moralizing; it didn't) Btw in response to your other comment about "PC drivel", if it's PC to tell someone not to make light of other people's sexuality being used against them as collateral in debt, then I don't want to live in whatever your ideal non-PC world is like.

bicubic 10y ago

My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. I come to HN to escape the drivel that reddit's tech/programming subreddits have become due to comments like that outnumbering meaningful discussion.

omginternets 10y ago
>My problem with posts like that isn't that they're insensitive or whatever, it's that they're noise. We're in perfect agreement about this, hence "downvote the joke you don't like and move on with your life". Multi-paragraph reprimands are adding to the noise. And more to the point: the parent comment wasn't complaining about noise but rather adopting a nauseatingly moralizing posture.
- chickenfries 10y ago
  And yet.. you're doing the exact same thing.

TazeTSchnitzel 10y ago

Internet culture? Social norms exist in the “real” world too. Some people would rather avoid descending into puerile jokes.

omginternets 10y ago
Yeah, agreed. They'd also rather read interesting discussions than condescending reprimands. You know, it does violate social norms to be a moralizing do-goodist who can't help but to intervene over PC drivel... right?

throwaway_3452 10y ago

Yeah it's all a joke to you. Go ahead call all the refugees cockroaches and animals while you're at it so you can live in your little pussy grabbing bubble while little kids die of chlorine attacks. You need to learn about real people's suffering which goes beyond getting pwned on your video game addiction, white boy.

omginternets 10y ago
Yeah, that's exactly what's going on in this thread. Good job. You're simply dripping with tolerance, compassion, and non-racist rhetoric aren't you?
sctb 10y ago
This violates the guidelines for being egregiously uncivil, so we've banned the account. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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cooper12 10y ago

Yeah I'm aware it's a joke, which you might have noticed with the three different instances of the word "joke" in my comment. And harmless to you maybe? It's as harmless as a joke about male rapes in prison. It normalizes the dehumanization of people and turns sexual exploitation into a punchline. Maybe you wouldn't find it so funny if someone was threatening to spread your (hypothetical) daughter's nude pictures and ruin her life. Downvoting doesn't do much when other people will agree with and upvote the cheap joke, you're just basically telling me to "tsk tsk" under my breath and walk away; that's surely gonna have an effect on the commenter or anyone reading. (just like the -4 on my comment made me think twice about moralizing; it didn't) Btw in response to your other comment about "PC drivel", if it's PC to tell someone not to make light of other people's sexuality being used against them as collateral in debt, then I don't want to live in whatever your ideal non-PC world is like.