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Hacker news?

• zzzcpan 8y ago
  Presumably you think the article is irrelevant here. But "Social Justice censorship" affects tech too.
  • amaccuish 8y ago
    > "Social Justice censorship" affects tech too That's if such a thing exists. It seems to me that people's tastes and values have changed, and in this case, some comedians haven't noticed and want to continue as they were. Comedy has always sought to reach people on their level, whatever that may be, and be relevent. Just as there was pushback when societies decided it wasn't ok to call PoC certain terms, the same is happening now sadly. This article makes it sound like comedy is only about using a particular language directed at a set of particular groups. I think comedy is much more than that. E.g. just because a joke doesn't have the n word in doesn't mean it can't be funny.
    • DATACOMMANDER 8y ago
      Are you actually comparing calling a black person the n-word to finding it pretentious when someone demands to be referred to using a made-up pronoun?
    • belorn 8y ago
      There was also push back when Life of Brian was made, as people of a particular faith did not like it when Monty Python made fun of them.
• mondoshawan 8y ago
  Yeah. Definitely not. Need to spend more time on new flagging junk like this.
  • belorn 8y ago
    Here is a list of articles on the topic of social equality posted today: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18822577 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18826683 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18824440 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823468 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18823468