Truly Tasteless Jokes
Decoder Ring
The Joke That Cuts Me to the Quick, and That's Life
She had picked that joke from a book of hundreds of jokes. It does this by saying directly what the other jokes imply, if this time about a group she belongs to. The joke gets at the beating heart underneath all the reflexive taboo breaking and repetitive stereotypes. This is how people see other people, especially people who have less power than them. Reading the book is so awful exactly because it seems written by someone who revels in this,. But ashton, the person who actually wrote those books, can't see that clearly. Instead, i think for her, it's more like, if this joe cuts me to the quick, then there's stuff in this book that cuts everyone
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