>While not referencing the joking relationship specifically, Žižek argues it allows us to frankly acknowledge problems, giving people the opportunity to perhaps

>While not referencing the joking relationship specifically, Žižek argues it allows us to frankly acknowledge problems, giving people the opportunity to perhaps work through them. That is the key though and many people ignore it. Being offensive comes with a price. We need to make sure we are buying something with that price or else we are wasting our social capital. Offensive jokes that exist for no other purpose than to be offensive are therefore bad. Offensive jokes that are working towards exposing or furthering the discourse on some problem are still worthwhile. Many people can't tell the difference between those two.