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Its not funny....
gal·lows hu·mor /ˈɡalōz ˈ(h)yo͞omər/ noun
grim and ironic humor in a desperate or hopeless situation.
I’m Czech and our culture prides itself in gallows humor.
Way to make the year's darkest day even darker!
Easy answer. Used too much. An especially weak argument when the one finding it "funny" is never from the area it's happening in, and thus doesn't actually have any emotional connection they're needing to cope with.
You know there are still a couple recordings floating around from people who had tried to call family and/or 911 prior to dying in 9/11? I've found anyone who listens to those seems to stop making the 9/11 jokes. Strikes me odd. Must have made it real.
I mean, I may not have any connection to Prague, but as an American citizen who has been shot at, I think I have enough of an emotional connection to gun violence. I still chuckled.
I studied at this university and work real close to it. Chuckled too.
I've listened to those recordings, and I still make 911 jokes. Reading the room and compartmentalization are things that go along with Gallows humour, but its generally accepted that the internet is a space where thick skin is needed, because its impossible to know the situation of literally every stranger who'll end up eying your comments
Good people joke to cope with the absurdity of our society's tolerance of it and our fellow citizens demanding it stay this way so they can selfishly keep their pew pews.
It happens all the time. We live in morbid times. The sane can cry about it, be numb to it, or laugh the absurdity of it, because we have no recourse to address it. The ignorant rugged individuals that don't want a society have spoken.
Shooting each other like dogs when we aren't exploiting eachother for private profit is who we are and I'm ashamed of it, would you rather people horrified of this reality find a coping mechanism to get through the day like dark humor, or just kill ourselves so as not to offend?
I'm worried that if I legit stopped laughing about it, I'd become a gun statistic myself.
Big /s on this one. No suicidal or homicidal ideations, but man, am I floored by kindergarten rhymes about lockdowns and having gotten 2 lockdown notifications from my 11-year-olds school in last month (neither were active shooters but when the message subject is just "lockdown' there's that moment where you just don't know)
We chose guns over them. I intend to tell my child that when they reach the age of reason. Some individuals like me did not, but overall society says that their ability to buy unlimited murder toys is more important than their life. That is what our society values. This is who we are.
I will tell them this because it is true, and they need to operate in the world as it is, not as I would like it to be. I will also tell them that is an example of how important it is NOT to allow what society believes to dictate what they believe, as most of what our society believes is cruel and exploitative, and I hope that's not who they want to be.
I am Czech and jokes about it are circulating already. We take pride in our dark humor, fostered during our perilous 20ᵗʰ century.
"You can accept that things are awful and still have a sense of humor about it." - Daniel Tosh
You need a sense of humor about things.
There's the quote,
Laugh to keep from crying
it's not funny, it's absurd.