re: James Gunn Getting His Job Back Is A Win Against Outrage Culture

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You do realize what jokes are right? It's called shock or dark humor.

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I realize that people want the license to say literally anything under the guise of comedy. I think it’s an absurd position, and people who want to treat comedy as some esoteric art are being ridiculous.

Also, it’s not up to me whether he gets to keep his job, and I’m not outraged about him keeping his job.

If he worked for me, he’d be fired on the general principle of not wanting to employ perverts.
Go read his tweets. If someone persisted in making such “dark” jokes in normal company he’d be ostracized because normal people would know he was sick. Even making one such joke would have normal people looking at him sideways.