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minus-squareSLVRDRGN@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up45·14 hours ago“He’s proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it’s framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”
minus-squareSkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·edit-23 hours ago“it’s just a joke” has been the biggest lie of everyone that had ever said it Humor has a purpose, it introduces ideas, it hits at an undercurrent of communication. It’s never “just a joke”
“He’s proven again and again that joking is his way of introducing particularly harmful ideas into public discourse, and they have a way to sort of become normalized because we might dismiss them as jokes,” Marx said. “So even if it’s framed as kind of a glib or ironic, we have to still take those things seriously and call them out for what they are.”
“it’s just a joke” has been the biggest lie of everyone that had ever said it
Humor has a purpose, it introduces ideas, it hits at an undercurrent of communication. It’s never “just a joke”