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Originally Posted by LoganSnake
Maybe people think that other people need to develop a sense of humor.
Maybe people think that other people need to stop looking for something that isn't there.
What ever the reason is, this is not unusual. "I can't believe you think such and such" is a pretty common response. Why would this be different? On one side you have people wondering where the racism is in that vid and why people are getting bent out of shape about it and on the other side you have people wondering how people can ignore such a blatant display of racism or to put it more eloquently "cultural insensitivity."
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I have a different conception of what it means to be developed. Here's a hint: a more developed sense of humor is more inclined towards subtle, clever humor and less inclined towards overly gimmicky, stereotype based humor. Right? So as a sense of humor gets more developed, it becomes
less responsive to the type of jokes or situations that make adolescent boys laugh. So the people who maybe think that we should all relax, develop a sense of humor and laugh at jokes based on racial caricatures perhaps might actually be the one who could benefit from some maturity in their sense of humor. But that's just my opinion on what the term "develop" means. That being said, I do appreciate well done low brow humor myself, and I don't think that underdeveloped senses of humor are the problem here.
Everybody has their own sense of humor and that's fine. I don't care if the skit is racist. It doesn't matter to me. I don't care if other people think it's funny. It doesn't matter to me. I just think it's interesting how defensive some folks can get when someone questions the things they find funny. I think it's interesting how, instead of simply saying, "You know what, I disagree that this is racist, I think it's funny, etc," they respond with "My sense of humor isn't dumb, your sense of humor is dumb."