• mean_bean279@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    Woah, sorry Mr. Sensitive pants. How do people know it’s a real life baby?

    Care to write out a list of all the things society can’t joke about?

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      11 months ago

      Needing a list of things to treat with care and not joke about is a new level of lack of social awareness.

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        11 months ago

        Oi, you fukn wot m8?

        I work in tech sales. If I didn’t have “social awareness” I’d be terrible at my job. Joking about shit that’s dark is a human response to things we sometimes view as uncomfortable. It sucks that a kid died from being attacked by dingos. It probably wasn’t the first time it happened, and probably won’t be the last. 9/11 was a national tragedy, but we still joke about that too. Far more than dingo ate your baby jokes. Do the deaths of 3000 people not equal one baby? Or is there some strange math problem where 1 baby, but only when eaten by a dingo, is somehow more sad (and less jokey) than all those deaths?