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Bully Suspended for Verbally Harassing Peers Argues He Was Just Pushing Boundaries With His Comedy (reductress.com)
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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Dark jokes can be made without punching down. This is satire on the whole idea of certain well-known comedians punching down by making very bigoted jokes about marginalized groups and not getting the consequences they should for it.

Michael Richards would be given a Fox comedy special after his outburst these days.