[_RedPanda]

>Germans couldn’t even begin to imagine why being brutally honest would hurt someone in the first place! If the truth hurts you, isn’t that more your fault than the truth’s?

What? This is simply not true at all, germans aren't emotionless robots, of course they don't go out of their way and hurt the feelings of other people.

Kept reading after that statement and regretted it.

[foozed]

The author seems to have suffered a bad case of misunderstanding the "Berliner Schnauze"...

I, unfortunately, also read the whole linked opinion piece on german humor from the economist [0] which I almost disliked even more. I might just feel insulted (being German) but please: calling out "Instead of a raised eyebrow, we get full-body signals to laugh now." from the country that gave us laugh-tracks...

[0] https://www.1843magazine.com/ideas/the-daily/being-german-is...

[itronitron]

maybe the 'humorless germans' are just playing it straight and trying to increase the comedic tension in the situation.