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Race's Humor Is Not New
The idea of taboo busting speech had long been associated with the left, not the right. The republican party was increasingly willing to tolerate undecorous, rude, offensive behavior so long as it was camouflaged and directed at what it considered to be the right targets. This line of thinking gave the books a lot of cover, masked them for people who got a jolt from transgressing.