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Is It True That We Are Killing Off the Ability to Make Jokes?
Jokes are a vital mechanism by which we navigate difficult topics. By killing off the ability to make jokes, what we do is we rob ourselves of exactly the tool that you want to deal with the difficult stuff. To the extent that we have a problem, like race or gender or economic concentration of wealth, you want people to be able to joke their way to discoveries about what the nature of these things is.