• Flying Squid@lemmy.world
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    6 months ago

    This really sounds like you just don’t like comedy of today. Because it’s moved on without you. Sorry, grandpa.

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      6 months ago

      That’s quite the hollow argument. To first deny that comedy changed and then state that it’s just moved on to something they don’t like and then insult them for it. I think you’re really undermining your own argument by conflating the evolution of comedy with the tendency to clean it up because we are no longer supposed to offend anyone while handing out participation trophies.

      You’re free to deny this is happening, but maybe you’re just too young to notice it, kiddo.

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        6 months ago

        When did I deny comedy had changed? It hasn’t changed. I’m saying that 2005 wasn’t some golden era where things were so much less politically correct. It’s because I’m not young that I know this. I grew up with Family Ties and Alf. I remember Don’t tell me TV was more edgy in the past. I’m old, I’m just not naïve.

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          6 months ago

          Correct me if I’m wrong but you are the only one mentioning the year 2005. You agree things have changed, but in each of your comments you are suggesting that nothing is going on. Which is it?

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            6 months ago

            Because it’s the year the show you’re claiming couldn’t be made today premiered. Comedy changes, but that doesn’t mean an old comedy show couldn’t be made today because of some sort of political correctness directive, it means modern audiences find new things funny because the comedy landscape changes.

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              6 months ago

              That wasn’t my comment, and it obviously was just an arbitrary example.

              but that doesn’t mean an old comedy show couldn’t be made today because of some sort of political correctness directive, it means modern audiences find new things funny because the comedy landscape changes.

              If the issue were simply a different taste in comedy, people wouldn’t be up in arms about it, it would just be ignored, like many things that aren’t popular. If you want to deny that there is a tendency to comb through everything just to find something offensive to rage against, then the discussion is pointless.

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                6 months ago

                People have been ‘up in arms’ about comedy not being like how it was when they were young my entire life.

                You know what I used to hear when I was a kid? Complaints that George Carlin wasn’t funny like Don Rickles.

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                  6 months ago

                  If you can’t even admit that woke culture tries to clean everything up and has exacerbated the issues then you’re simply in denial. It’s all around you, it’s on TV, it’s in comedy clubs, it’s in movies, it’s in universities. If you can’t even acknowledge that, it suggests to me that you can’t really argue with it, but rather need to act that it doesn’t exist.

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                    6 months ago

                    I don’t admit that “woke culture” is a thing.

                    I know conservatives want it to be a thing, but it isn’t.