• uniqueid198x@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    1 year ago

    Dark humor is humor generated from your own pain.

    Edgy humor is humor generated from the pain of others.

    The first one is funny, the second is boring and shitty

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      Eh. I’d say there’s exceptions. Maybe more to the point of “Don’t Punch Down”?

      I can laugh all day at the rich/privileged suffering the consequences of their own mistakes.

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        “Don’t Puch down” is good rule to live by.

        Maybe the rich/privileged are controlling/influencing so much of our lifes that this counts as your own pain.

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        Not certain the rich feel pain the same way, but you’re right. Punching up has value and often is the right thing to do

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        I feel that privilege is a concept that should be applied to classes, not individuals. You can’t just judge someone as privileged based on one aspect of their life.

        The whole “punching up” concept just leads to it being accepted to make misogynistic jokes at white women, ablist and body-shaming jokes at “creepy” men, racist jokes at wealthy Asians, and so on.

        Rather, I think the intent behind the joke, and the consequences of the stereotypes it reinforces, is what should be examined rather than the demographic on the receiving end.

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      I think its more the way humor is used/intended.

      The problem is that people use humor as a weapon. If you fall those people point a finger at you and laugh while calling you an idiot.

      Others use it as a way to deal with stuff or in general just see it as something to make light of a situation. Those people would also laugh but they would come to your help, ask if everything is alright and would help you up. While knowing that everybody falls down sometimes and that it can funny.

      Everything can be funny with the right people and that helps to cope.

    • Ab_intra@lemmy.world
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      I got no problem with humor… But rasistical humor I don’t really care for. It is possible to have fun without hurting loads of peoples feelings.