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Bill Burr said it best: everyone always laughs at the jokes about other groups, but when the jokes are about their group, they can never handle them.
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
Bill Burr said it best: everyone always laughs at the jokes about other groups, but when the jokes are about their group, they can never handle them.
- yetihehe 5y agoI've never seen this effect with programming jokes or jokes about programmers. Typical reactions I've seen are always "yeah, so true". But this is only one anecdote, I may be in a bubble, so I ask others: have you seen programmers getting offended by jokes about programmers?
- a_wild_dandan 5y agoI've seen programmers get offended by jokes about tools they use. Some folks take such jokes personally, if the vitriol is any indication.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoI think it depends how much a certain label/group is core to one's identity. For many people in the Twittersphere, they worship the idea of labbelling themselves and showing it off to others for some reason.
- mbg721 5y agoLabeling yourself is something that can be done effectively in 140 characters.
- throwaway894345 5y agoWhile this is true, I think it kind of understates the problem. The issue isn't just "a few vain people put too much emphasis on their superficial group identities", but rather they are part of a broader ideological contingent that puts tremendous emphasis on everyone's superficial group identities. These folks generally believe that these identities are useful bases for decision making (i.e., discrimination in the most literal sense of the term) because to know a person's superficial identities is to completely understand that person. It might be controversial to say (i.e., go ahead and take my Internet Points), but it seems to plainly run completely counter to the equality ideology that gave us the civil rights movement and popularized "tolerance" as a virtue.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoWell said. I frequently think back to MLK Jr's quote about being judged not by color of skin, but by content of heart, and how appalled he'd be at the contemporary landscape.
- mensetmanusman 5y agoThat’s because the media hasn’t convinced you that it’s the most important characteristic of your humanity.
- dekhn 5y agoi don't have any problems with people making stereotype jokes or really any jokes about any of my ethnicity or classes.
- throwaway894345 5y agoWay back before 2010 people would make jokes about every group and most of us handled them pretty well. That was back before the "everything is violence" people came to power.
- missinfo 5y ago"they can never handle them." -> "a vocal minority can't handle them." Bill jokes about everyone. Dave jokes about everyone. South Park jokes about everyone. Most are fine with that and are able to laugh at themselves.