There used to be a day when I could sit back, watch some stand up, and know "welp, that was racist."
Now though?
Irony is such a shield that I can no longer tell which ones are genuinely racist, which ones don't think they are racist but actually are, and which ones aren't either way.
I mean, I've got a pretty good idea Louis C.K. isn't racist, but anybody that makes racial jokes I can't say for certain.
Example: A lot of people around these parts and others say Jeff Dunham is racist. I don't find him funny, but I do wonder why he doesn't get the same shield as so many of these supposedly liberal comics.
Where is the line?
Do we need to strictly look at the audience and see who is there and who is laughing?

This isn't just a racial thing either. Misogyny and homophobia run rampant as well, often with even blurrier lines.

They all run together.
Is it in the number of the jokes? It certainly can't be in the quality because it's so played out now that few of them are funny to many now anyways.

So weigh in:
Is there anybody out there you wanna stick up for?
A particular style of joke (or even a specific joke you remember) that you would point to as specifically offensive or inoffensive?
Anybody you want to point to as being an offender?

Let's do this.

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