[quote=@SleepingSilence] I didn't really want to dive back into this, but I'll touch on this VERY briefly to see if I understand this right. According to this "theory", whether you believe it or not is up in the air. But basically it's the equivalent of Privilege Points...so a black person will automatically have more leniency in saying black jokes than a white person. Because "whites" have unfairly treated blacks in the past history. So that would also assume literally everything would be that case, that you couldn't in good taste make a good joke about stupid people unless you were actually mentally disabled in some way? Or a joke about your wife, if you're not a women. But your mother could and it would make that joke better and more sensible? Okay, to peel that back. People have been assholes to fucking everyone. Africa STILL has slavery...their 'black'. I can guarantee there treated worse now there. So does that standard hold any water? http://articles.latimes.com/2013/oct/17/world/la-fg-wn-slavery-africa-20131017 Just ignoring the other cases, because I think the idea that certain jokes can't be said by certain people is a ridiculous standard that WILL enable double standard shit later down the line of questioning. And it could just endlessly be picked apart... It also, absolutely ignores case by case basis's, most of my friends lived in the ghetto...and racial humor is literally almost always used when I'm around them. So if I told them, or if they told me "The moon" joke. (who hasn't heard that joke before?) It would be inappropriate because of our skin color and DISREGARD the whole "friends for years" thing. And honestly jokes are funnier the more absurd they are...which is exactly why trying to make them stale, or with what this theory implies force people to only tell jokes, that they're "allowed to". How fucking stale would it be if everyone was limited in that way? And I'd also argue I don't even think that's how human brains work anyway...I think there is a double standard in most comedy. And it has absolutely can't be excused as "well this happened, so therefore..." because most cultures have experienced many of the same trials and tribulations. Everyone is human after all... So, in short don't know much about the theory, but it sounds really wrong to me. But I could very much see that being believed as a valid opinion to have. And it struck a chord. [/quote] Confusing theories with hypothesis: the post