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In response to
"Jesus, we're still holding people "accountable" for 8-year-old attempts at Twitter humor? -- nm"
by
Ender
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How do we think it could work otherwise?
Posted by
Reagen
Dec 6 '18, 14:58
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1) No one's owed anyone's attention
2) It's not anyone's job to pay attention to everything everyone says in case it's offensive, so stuff slips by and is discovered later
3) Tastes change, and people fall out of favour for far more capricious reasons than offense
4) Stuff that works in a smaller audience can come across worse for larger audiences. It's the risk you take (for instance, Andrew Dice Clay was fine working in his audiences, but that cost him larger respectability. And that's the bargain he struck).
5) Later audiences may not have even been around to approve or disapprove of bits.
6) "So I contradict myself. I contain multitudes."
7) Anyone can joke about anything, but there are degrees of difficulty. i.e. Blackface jokes are fucking *hard*, but Tropic Thunder pulled it off. Hart's jokes about homophobia are fucking lame.
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