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Cracked with a timely article for this:

http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-reason...er-anymore_p2/

When Trevor Noah's offensive tweets blew up, CNN had a panel of talking heads debating what makes a joke too mean. In response, the conservative blogosphere blew up with a fresh wave of articles making the same old points: "stop being so thin-skinned" and "stop pretending to be offended." And every single one of those articles completely misses the point, because this was never about feelings.

When one comedian makes a joke about women as sex objects, it doesn't matter. When every comedian, and every movie, and every video game treats women as sex-prizes to be earned by strong, assertive men, then it contributes to a culture that doesn't value women as human beings. A culture where police officers don't believe female rape victims when their stories don't match what they've seen in movies and on TV. Then you have to call out the one comedian, because he or she is part of something far bigger and more evil than themselves.

It's the same with racism. No one calls out racist comedy because no one's allowed to make fun of black people -- they call it out because black men are killed by police at comically higher rates than white men, and studies have shown that we instinctively believe that black people are violent, emotionless killing machines. That's ####ing weird, and pop culture seems like it might be part of the problem.