02-06-2017, 10:52 AM
(02-05-2017, 08:16 PM)CKwi88 Wrote: Any given topic will push you to one side of that spectrum. Take the fire xxlt mentioned. I'm not from the greater Cincinnati area, I've never heard of it. If you talk about the Kiss nightclub fire however, it's a whole different thing to me.
I remember travelling abroad, and people made jokes about the 9/11 attacks. They weren't from the USA, so it didn't have the same impact on them as it would me. Just like the jokes would have a different impact on me, an 8th grader at the time of the attacks, than the impact on my uncle who was walking away from the buildings when the planes hit.
I don't know if xxlt was being specific to humor. My personal opinion is that anything goes in humor, as long as the objective of making people laugh isn't lost. Jokes that I find to be in poor taste I just try to ignore. But in my opinion, you can't dictate what is or isn't fair game in humor.
This reminds me of the South Park Episode where there is a set length of time before some horrible things can be funny, in the episode it was AIDS. Once they hit a certain mark it was "okay" to make jokes about AIDS.
