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No, not all sorts. What you're describing hasn't been believable for over a decade.
It's so believable that dark humor jokes exist that this video is from even more than a decade ago. The internet making fun of your sacred cows is not some new phenomenon and wanting to be immune to it is again, just another form of cringe.
I'm saying dark humor, at least a certain political flavor of it, has become haram somewhere in the 2010's, so you finding an old video of an instance of dark humor that is not offensive to the side that declares things haram proves... what exactly?
Anyway, FFC pretty much proved your "tee he, it's just edgy jokes" facade is just an act.
Oh if you're saying the opposite and that dark humor isn't allowed anymore, then you're even more wrong. I see plenty of 9/11 jokes to this day, I see people constantly joking about suicide and self harm, and remember this whole thread is about how kids are joking about Kirk.
Or let's say, Epstein! Endless jokes about him, and he raped a bunch of children. I simply can't take the claim that dark humor isn't allowed anymore when Five Nights at Epstein's is a real game.
Like I said: "no, not all sorts". There used to be period on the internet where you could run wild with all sorts of offensive humor, but it's long gone, and I don't know who you think you're fooling by saying we're still in it.
I'm not fooling anyone, Did Sedan Hussein do 7/11 has over half a million views from just nine days ago. People are still doing dark humor.
And again, this would not be a thing if dark humor wasn't still real. One of the most egregious and awful child traffickers in modern history, and still a joke.
Yes, that's what I said. I'm pretty sure someone gave you a list of cancellable jokes within the last day or so. Also, you keep providing links to exactly one kind of offensive humor, and avoiding the kinds that you know are still cancelable. Hell, you even explicitly defended cancellations for dark humor.
Can you show me any dark humor joke that a person has been charged and convicted of in the US in the past 30 years? Dark humor is in fact allowed in the US. Let's go even further, 50 years. That's a pretty generous amount of time for modern day.
The only thing even like that is stuff like Larry Bushart being put in jail for a short period for a meme, and I've not contested nothing ever happens in any form ever never even from small government officials, but that it's rare and doesn't escalate into anything further. Even Greg Lukianoff, the CEO of FIRE called Bushart one of the most egregious examples he's ever seen, which shows both that Bushart like situations are rare and that further escalation doesn't happen. Because if it was common and not particularly extreme, then it wouldn't be an egregious example.
Can you point me to the comment in this chain that says any of this conversation is about charging and convicting people?
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