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It's interesting -- I'd read about this story before but hadn't seen the actual picture. If you have even a mild sense of off-color humor it's really not that b
by nlh 12y ago
It's interesting -- I'd read about this story before but hadn't seen the actual picture. If you have even a mild sense of off-color humor it's really not that bad (I get the joke even without being "in" on it.)
The problem is "the crowd" doesn't generally have even the slightest, subtlest sense of humor, so something like that going public is trouble. Call it the Mass Whoosh Effect :(
- imh 12y agoThere's probably a bit of a Poe's Law thing going on. You see it in one context, your reaction is that it's a joke about the sign. You see it in another context, you think it's a comment about the cemetery.
- fenomas 12y agoWhat I find scary about cases like this is that nobody in the angry mob ever seems very hurt or genuinely upset - instead you see people thrilled and energized to be part of getting someone fired. If you remember the Justine Sacco thing (the woman who tweeted something before boarding a plane and went viral before landing) twitter was positively giddy about it. More than anything else it resembles the Two Minute Hate. People seem to really like having something to be righteously angry about.
- sliverstorm 12y agoI'm not certain, but I think it could be described as sadism. The same reason people enjoy blood sport.