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> Would it have been OK to make a joke about 9/11 victims while they were still digging people out of the wreckage? "Life does not cease to be funny when peopl
by Teever 4y ago
> Would it have been OK to make a joke about 9/11 victims while they were still digging people out of the wreckage?
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Do you think its possible that someone doing that digging told a terrible joke when they were doing that digging?
Would it be funny if a trans person was the one telling the joke?
- freejazz 4y agoAnd you don't think its possible plenty of people found such a joke distasteful? You act like if you walked the streets of NY after 9/11, making jokes about it, people would be cheering you on... I have a feeling the situation would be quite different.
- Teever 4y agoIs walking through the streets of NY immediately after 9/11 and making 9/11 jokes equivalent to a bot on twitch saying rude things? Like how does what you're talking about relate to the topic at hand in anyway whatsoever?
- freejazz 4y agoIt's not, but it wasn't my hypothetical that I offered as a reason of demonstrating my reasonability. >Like how does what you're talking about relate to the topic at hand in anyway whatsoever? I'm not exactly surprised you aren't getting the point. Context doesn't really seem to be a thing to you. For what it's worth, I was pointing out that context matters, so your hypothetical wasn't really meaningful. Arguably, less meaningful than what you accuse my own post of being, considering that my post contained this lesson.