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Liara Kaylee Tsai, a Trans Woman With “Incredibly Powerful Energy,” Found Dead in Minnesota.
First things first: this is an unspeakable tragedy, I feel terrible for this person's friends and family, and anyone cracking jokes about "their pronouns were was/were" is disgusting and should be ashamed of themselves.
This article is remarkably forthright, refusing even to lie by omission:
I predict that this will go one of two ways:
No, it's not an unspeakable tragedy. It's a murder. Gruesome surely, tragic for those close to her. But people have been making light of murder for, well, probably forever. Do kids still sing about Lizzie Borden giving her father 40 whacks? We did. If stabbings are unspeakable tragedies what do we make of Louis Armstrong doing Mack the Knife? Because that's an American songbook classic.
Making light of the macabre is a normal human response. It's not disgusting or evil. R/HermanCainAward? Good content. Was/were? That joke would honestly kill if it were told at a drag show. The gulag and the purges were unspeakable tragedies, yet the scene in Death of Stalin where periodic gunshots are heard in the NKVD hallway was hilarious.
A holocaust survivor dies of old age and goes to heaven. When he gets there he meets God and tells him a holocaust joke.
God says, “That’s not funny.”
And the man says, “I guess you had to be there. “
As for the PR possibilities of the murder, it'll probably just be sorted into a pile of "trans murders" and used in statistics. The reality based community will continue to note that trans women have a murder rate higher than natal women but well below that of the general male population; they will not succeed in persuading anyone.
Revolting.
A testament to how remedial drag humour is.
This is actually funny.
Really? For me this is indistinguishable from
The punch line here would be if Alice personally crashed her plane a few months after arguing with people about air safety on Twitter. Regardless of the statistical safety of air travel, that would be funny. I believe the term is ironic humor.
I dunno, it's just not clicking for me. If Herman Cain had said the virus was a psyop or fake or made up and literally no one had ever died from it (or would ever die from it), then fair enough, that would've been legitimately ironic. But all he said was that it wasn't as dangerous as it was made out to be (and bear in mind, at the time of writing it was totally normal to see normie liberals referring to Covid as the end of the world, or projecting death tolls orders of magnitude higher than the true figures even with the implementation of punitive restrictions), which doesn't mean no one will ever die from it.
It's the classic John Sedgwick joke.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Sedgwick?wprov=sfti1
His command to his soldiers to stand up may have been perfectly reasonable, it nonetheless is remembered as a very funny joke.
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