I can’t believe that people are getting offended by a mild joke that even Dinklage would probably think is funny. He knows he’s short, you know.
People with characteristics that get made fun of, all know they have these characteristics, they live with them every day. They just want it to be normal, and not have it pointed out all the time. They don’t mind when someone notices something obvious, they mind when the response is mean-spirited or ignorant.
Dinklage holding a shield is nothing, until it gets compared to a guitar pick. That’s not mean-spirited, it doesn’t make fun of him, or present him as less human, it simply highlights a physical difference that is funny IN THAT CONTEXT.
I would never make fun of a small person for their size alone (their politics is fair game), but come on, some things are just objectively amusing, and this is one of them.
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Not sure I’m down with the spirit behind this joke… Thought I left this kind of humor behind on Reddit. We can do better than this.
Yeah, man. This is pretty gross.
I mean in a way it is just reddit light. Not as bad obviously, but there are a lot of people who just want another reddit so bad. Even the subs stay the same to some degree. One of the most cringe parts of reddit was that a lot of the subreddits were called …porn because porn is le epic. And they just kept that because these subreddits became really big. And now you have a new start here and people just name these subs here foodporn too for example. Really puzzling to me, but hey.
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Make jokes at the expense of the disabled, races, transgenders, gays or religious people, and you will be rightly criticized and shamed for it.
Make jokes at the expense of people who are ugly, fat or short in stature, somehow that’s still okay with way too many people…
But it’s ALWAYS okay to make fun of guitarists.
To be fair, I think he is short enough to be considered disabled
Make any kind of joke and inevitably someone will show up sharing their second-hand offended-ness.
I don’t seem to have this problem. I wonder why we have such different experiences…
Yeah sure. So lets make racist jokes again, because every joke offends someone … ?
You can make jokes about absolutely everything. But if you do it at the expense of others, and the touchier and more sensitive the subject, the funnier the joke has to be - so you better make sure it’s fucking hilarious and original.
People tend to miss that part. Especially the one about short people is always the same old punch line - the one along the lines of this post.
I’m not offended that OP made a joke about Peter Dinklage. I’m offended that it was a lame joke that I’ve seen a thousand times before.
So many hurt feelings in this thread. Small people cant take a joke…
