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Originally Posted by blankall
This is going to be a major issue for anyone involved in left wing thought. Relativism vs. absolutism and competing human rights. For example, how do you reconcile religions of minority groups vs. LGTBQ rights. Do you just demand that they modernize their religions? How do you go about enforcing that?
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With comedy, the standard and pithy advice is to punch up and not down. The obvious question is who gets to decide what’s up and what’s down. Even assuming you can reach any sort of consensus that white men are at the top, that leaves dozens of variations of sex, gender, race, ethnicity, religion, class, disability, etc to sort themselves into a privilege stack. Good luck with that.
And that’s not even getting into recognizing that one of the functions of comedy is to transgress taboos and consensus, to say things people are uncomfortable saying in polite society.