I grew up watching Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Mel Brooks, and Don Rickles. The jokes they performed were so outrageous and over the top, offensive to a funny degree, and today if anyone else told similar jokes they'd be hounded and attacked and crucified. My brain still to this day jumps right to what is considered inappropriate humor. I make no apologies for this. What I think of that is funny to me is not hate speech, hate thought, dismissive of someone else (unless they are an ass).
The fascism of political correctness today, I will never understand. Funny is funny, and also sometimes true is true, even if it offends someone, or everyone.
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