By A.
O. SCOTT
In an angry and polarized
social climate, humor has become as divisive a force as any other. It can also
be a catalyst for arguments about issues we'd rather avoid. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/06/07/movies/adjusting-to-a-world-that-wont-laugh-with-you.html?emc=edit_th_20150607&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=66671639&_r=0
"... But we’re also in the midst of a humor crisis. The world is full of jokes and also of people who can’t take them. It can seem, if you dip into social media or peruse the weekly harvest of Internet think pieces, that comedy swings on a fast-moving pendulum between amusement and outrage. We love jokes that find the far edge of the permissible, but we also love to turn against the joker who violates our own closely held taboos. In the blink of an eye, social media lights up not with twinkles of collective liking but with flames of righteous mob fury. We demand fresh material, and then we demand apologies..."
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