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There's censorship and there's self-censorship which is about not saying the joke I want to make because people will boo me and call me racist/sexist/

Posted by Roger More (aka RogerMore) Dec 6 '18, 12:54

homophobic, etc - or from a different POV, me having better judgment about what jokes I tell.

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- Right - that's what we do every day of our lives. But we also have different rules for artists (including comedians) who we encourage to comment on - Roger More Dec 6, 13:06 16
  - Right. I often think of a Louis CK bit (if we can still talk about him). Actually one of many because he was brilliant at walking the line. It was - pmb Dec 6, 14:01
  - part of it is that it's so weak a joke as to seem just like a genuine opinion of his. - Reagen Dec 6, 13:12 12
    - It's just boy talk. Locker room talk. -- nm - Melania Dec 6, 13:41
    - I feel it is different, when your job is to make people laugh, a big part of that is making them kind of uncomfortable. - groiny Dec 6, 13:14 10
      - Speaking about Hart's jokes specifically, they're more about making his audience comfortable. - Roger More Dec 6, 13:25 4
        
        But his jokes are not making those people uncomfortable. They are confirming the way those people think. - ty97 Dec 6, 13:28 2
        
        That's... what I said. Maybe you meant to reply to groiny? -- nm* - Roger More Dec 6, 13:31
        
        Which is my point. It is not *his* responsibility to not make that $. -- nm - Spawn Dec 6, 13:31
        
        thing is, Twitter makes everyone the audience. -- nm - groiny Dec 6, 13:27
      - But it wasn't just his sets, it was his tweets. Dude has some issues with the topic of gay for real. -- nm - ty97 Dec 6, 13:25 4
        
        some people do. - groiny Dec 6, 13:29 3
        
        "you're not his audience" falls away as an excuse when you're trying to attract a larger audience. -- nm - Reagen Dec 6, 14:06 2
        
        at the time of the tweets, he needed the publicity, now not so much. - groiny Dec 6, 14:09 1
        
        "we become who we pretend to be" -- nm - Reagen Dec 6, 14:11
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  - yes -- nm - groiny Dec 6, 13:07
- "hey boss, you're an asshole! Sorry, I just don't believe in censorship." -- nm - Reagen Dec 6, 12:57 4
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    - I don't understand why we're constantly re-litigating things no one disagrees with. -- nm - Reagen Dec 6, 13:04 1
      - "I strenuously agree." -- nm - Beryllium Dec 6, 13:05
    - Is baconization a form of censorship? -- nm - Beryllium Dec 6, 13:01

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