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Unpopular opinion: That "offensive" cat meme getting yanked from Twitter was just about a bad joke, not free speech
I got into it with a mod in a meme sharing group last week. They banned a post of mine showing a cat with a caption that poked fun at a news blunder. Took me nearly 3 hours to argue my case and get it back up. The mod kept saying it was "harmful," but honestly, it was just lame humor that nobody would've cared about 10 years ago. What's the line for you between a dumb meme and crossing a real boundary?
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calebw5016d agoMost Upvoted
It's like everyone's scared to just laugh and move on now.
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ryang7716d ago
Are people really that scared or is it just that some jokes aren't actually funny? I see this complaint a lot but most of the time the "joke" was just some edgy insult wrapped in a bad punchline. Remember when everyone used to laugh at stuff like calling someone a slur? That wasn't comedy, that was just mean. Nobody's too fragile because they don't want to laugh at a dead baby joke for the hundredth time. Maybe the problem isn't the audience but the material.
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