Well, we have unpopular opinions about hitman and other video games, and a general one seems missing. Do you have an unpopular point of view say about music? celebrities? food? Feel free to express it here!
But to keep a thread on rail, There are a few things worth of considering before you post:
Others might ask about the “why” about your opinion. You must be able to defend it with reasonable points without violence or bad language.
It’s mostly in the western countries that seem to have this issue and it’s been brought up many times by comedians.
People nowadays have a hard time separating things that are said as a joke and things that are truly offensive and disrespectful, same as how easy it is nowadays to call someone a nazi even though that person doesn’t “qualify” as one.
i agree. i think there’s a similar difference to the one between holy grail and life of brian. the former is a collection of very funny scenes, but the latter is both very funny and is more focused and cohesive.
have you got any examples?
if we’re talking very generally and very, very basically here, folks on both the left and right think he would’ve ‘had their back’ so to speak, when - and i don’t wish to speak for him, buuuut - he may well have given both ‘groups’ both barrels.
Jokes based on races even if it’s not meant to harm/hurt anyone of the specific race. Ive seen a shitton of movies with guys taking the piss out of another race and that shit was hilarious to all parties.
Tell the same joke on the street and you’re beaten into the hospital. Same goes with jokes based on gender, age, culture and so on. People need to learn how to laugh more often and don’t take everything personal.
i’m having trouble imagining a joke ‘based on race’ where that race isn’t belittled in someway. jokes tend to require economy of language, so everything mentioned tends to factor in to either the set-up or the punchline.
They can exist, and I can give you some examples. It’s all based and depends on the society. For instance, Kurds in Iran have symbolic pants which are wide.
As a matter of joke, any wide pair of pants is called Kurdish pants.
Or another one, (some) Lors (A race again) perform some crazy actions in their weddings/special ceremonies. Video for refrence:
So you might be said “Are you a Lor?” if you do such, with no intension to offense Lors.
it sounds like what you’re describing are more stereotypes than jokes; would that be fair to say…? if so, i’d say they’re a bit different from each other.
jokes are, like, a narrative form or rhetorical device that employs exaggeration and twists to specifically make people laugh, whereas stereotypes are simply a generalisation of a group of people (which could be either fairly benign or dangerously malicious) and aren’t explicitly used to entertain or make people laugh.
