liberalzionist:

cishetwhiteoppressor:

nationalshitpostingagency: these-things-happen-70: skeleton-lad: stfuprolifers: [source] “Culture of violence.” And these people expect to be taken seriously?

LMAO. RAPE ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED That’s the Maslow hierarchy for shitlords. Once you’ve made a few rape jokes, it’ll take about 4 months for you to start raping and killing babies.

The only joke rules that people need to follow are these:

Don’t make malicious “jokes.”

Know your audience.

If you’re telling a joke and the point of telling that joke is to deliberately hurt someone else, you’re not a comedian, you’re an asshole.

If you know that you can tease a friend about a label/an event and it’s light-hearted on both sides, it’s a joke between friends.

If you hear a joke that upsets you, ask the person that made the joke to avoid jokes like that in the future if you’re around.

The difference?

A non-Jewish Tumblr friend calls me a “dirty Jew” sometimes, and we laugh about it, because there’s absolutely no malice. However, if someone randomly were to call me a “dirty Jew,” then that’s absolutely not funny.

Sometimes, people have dark senses of humour, and that’s okay, because humour is subjective. (I imagine that a huge amount of Jews would never want even a friend to tease them about being a “dirty Jew,” whereas I can personally take it and laugh.) Remember all those “dead baby” jokes? Sometimes, people laugh because they’re shocked at the punchline. Sometimes, dark jokes are effective because they push the boundaries of good taste. Sometimes, people turn to dark humour as a coping mechanism for whatever actually hurts them, and those people? Nobody gets to demand to know another person’s personal traumas to “vet” them for making or taking jokes.

Jokes don’t create a “culture of violence.” Assholes that attack people who are uncomfortable with particular jokes and then keep on at them are assholes. People that use jokes as excuses to be bigoted away from jokes and actually go out to hurt others are also assholes. The ones that make vicious statements, get criticised and then try and use “oh, it was a joke” to brush it off instead of an apology are assholes, too. On the other side, it’s wrong to demand censorship of others when it comes to joking.

Jokes aren’t real, they’re jokes. Actions and actual beliefs that are violent and harmful are real. They’re the ones to care about.