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marcuskane2 | 4 months ago

> Especially South Park I think desensitized the millennial generation

Desensitized some people, who understood and appreciated the irony, absurdity and inversion of norms.

It hyper-sensitized others, who often doubled-down on the type of authoritarian political correctness that South Park satirized.

There is clearly a huge segment of the millennial generation who don't agree with the South Park "make jokes about everyone and everything" ethos, and instead believe there are numerous individuals, groups, topics and issues which should never be joked about, and feel very offended when someone does.

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balamatom|4 months ago

Jokes are serious business, more so when they're funny. It's best to leave that sort of thing to accredited professionals.

robocat|4 months ago

Lachwerkingenieur is a registered title in German that is related to your point.

It is a little known fact that Germans have rigorous state controls over who can build humour for their media.