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Originally Posted by Malachaii
The voices of reason speak at last. Humor is often meant to be offensive and the fact you are all offended by it counts as a "win" for the author of the offending article. The following is a quote from urbandictionary.com and it is both on topic and hilarious.
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That is fantastic. And it is good humour ... he he he.... i disgree when you state humour is often offensive. Not the case . Good humour isn`t. I mean we can also start making Nazi jokes here as well. I know quite a few. There is always a difference between offensive and derogatory and good humour. Usually good humour exxagerates things to a point that makes fun of the one that makes the joke as well. Bad humour is picking on others with stereotypes. Thats bad and easy. This piece COULD have been funny, if the writer would have made a little more effort in writing it as a satire. What he did is something any 6 year old school boy/girl could have done. That is my point. Its the kind of "ha ha ha" humour that just engages in forcing black and white vision and not engaging in making jokes of the one that portrays things that way or for people seing it that way.
I remember people talking about Borat in a similar way. Or "Brüno". But the kind of humour is different. He makes fun in Brüno of therapeutic offers to make him a "straight" instead of a "gay" man in the sense that he ends up with men all the time (part of the therapy). That IS making fun of two things here. The therapeutical value of turning gays to straight people by sending them to "mancamps" and engaging in "manly" activities (to be straight of coure...lol).
I t hink good humour has many facets, Bad humour doesn`t.
Its about the point - the outcome. The ability to reflect on yourself or show hypocrisy. I don`t see any hypocrisy in making satireof something that is not funny. Killing a hooker is not showing hypocrisy of mainstream society. That is my point. If killing a hooker is presented in a way that makes the people doing so look bad and fun as well (as an artefact) then its fine with me.
