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Originally Posted by Baby Lee
It's not so much exactly the concepts of snowflakes and safe spaces that is the actual problem in the specific field of comedy. It's this maxim that's gone from advice to irrevocable gospel in recent years that a comedian should always and only be striving to 'punch up.' It's similar to the maxim turned gospel in 'journalism' that one should always and only be 'afflicting the comfortable and comforting the afflicted.'
At its base, it comes from the same efforts of identity politics, where on must assume that there are oppressors and oppressed in every situation and the oppressors are always wrong and the oppressed are always not only right but righteous. So each audience member is entitled to do the heirarchical math on comedian and subject matter and judge whether the humor is aimed on a downward or upward trajectory.
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Nonsense. It's ****ing comedy