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Part 2, the ethics of humour.

Lots of good comes from humour, social bonds, creating norms, reinforcing them, bringing about social change and building community.

But sometimes people cross the line. And it's the woke.

There's outraged culture, right? It is a part of our public conversations. And that's why I think

why we wanted to fundamentally talk about this topic, or why it's so prominent in our

public conversations, the comedians, you're receiving death threats, being attacked or not wanting

to speak on US college campuses, and the comedians accusing audiences of a kind of self-congratulatory

righteousness that when an immoral joke's told,

an immorality for all of them doesn't apply to joking,

they use it as an attempt to just showcase their moral values and their virtues.

And they're misplaced, says the comedian.

We began this episode with the introduction of Jimmy Carr's joke about the Holocaust,

obviously a really sensitive topic included in a stand-up special which was performed to

thousands of people and released a millions of people on Netflix, not sponsored by them.

But yeah, give it a little watch if you want some more context.

The joke in which car delivered,

he described it as a career ender, he said, when people talk about the Holocaust, they talk

about the tragedy in horror, six million Jewish lies being lost, but no one ever mentions

the thousands of gypsies that were killed because no one ever wants to talk about the positives.

That was the joke met with hordes of laughter, but then lots of various Holocaust trusts and lots of public figures came out

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