The Worse Hate Often Starts as a Joke
Joking can be used to diffuse tense situations, to add levity, or even discuss otherwise uncomfortable topics through humor. However, it can also be used for the complete opposite.
Much of the worse hate starts as a joke.
It first begins this way to test the waters. It is meant to feel the room and keep plausible deniability. There is no responsibility when one is joking. When confronted or challenged, there is still room to escape with things like, “You are taking this too seriously”, “Everyone is so sensitive these days”, “Your generation don’t know how to laugh”, or “I am a comedian, not a sociologist”. In a simpler translation this normally means, “I am not responsible for things I say unless you like them”.
People like this joke for more than laughter. Laughter signifies what is permissible. Because they are not a racist if it is a joke. They are not a transphobe or a T.E.R.F when it’s a joke. They are not sexist, xenophobic, or homophobic, when they are always just joking. No one expects truth in humor, exaggerations are allowed in comedy, they exploit this. Things otherwise hurtful are now allowed because it’s all just a joke.
Joking is safe because they disguise all the ugly things, they normally cannot say with a bit humor.
