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by jdub 1710 days ago
Are you confusing "making fun of" with "offensive", or "punching down"? These are not the same things.
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Try to describe the difference to a woke mob, then
> Try to describe the difference to a woke mob, then

Exactly.

I'm not confusing anything, it's you who has a basic misunderstanding of how this all works.

You don't get to determine the rules and context of communication for other people, you only get to determine them for yourself. I don't mean rules and context in a modern political and/or cultural sense, I mean them in a basic interpretive sense.

The text is in the eye of the beholder. Not in the eye of the mob who didn't read the text.