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Talk:Counterexamples to Evolution (view source)
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:::::At a Hollywood-type gathering earlier this year, where mocking people who are more conservative than the performers has long been customary, the emcee mocked the performers themselves instead, and they were furious about it. Double standard?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
:::::At a Hollywood-type gathering earlier this year, where mocking people who are more conservative than the performers has long been customary, the emcee mocked the performers themselves instead, and they were furious about it. Double standard?--[[User:Aschlafly|Andy Schlafly]] 00:06, 14 May 2011 (EDT)
::::::Most humor assumes a certain shared perspective, and it is only funny if one shares that perspective. Others who are starting from a different perspective won't find the joke funny. This is true whether one is a conservative, a liberal, a whatever. Humor is a very in-group thing. [[User:Maratrean|Maratrean]] 00:10, 14 May 2011 (EDT)