onespankman said:__potato__ said:Imagine if an official Japanese account started posting 9/11 memes. Kinda sad how that Barbie account started posting memes about an event that literally killed around 200,000 people (not even to mention the people who suffered even though they weren't born at that time because the radiation was passed down from mother to child) but it's okay because it didn't happen in America so it's okay to make jokes about🙄.
Americans joke about 9/11 all the time.
If a Japanese account made a joke about 9/11 relating to a movie depicting it, I doubt we’d even hear about it. It’s possible a conservative site or two would write outraged headlines, but it wouldn’t go beyond that.
Whether a joke about a tragedy works is entirely audience dependent. New Yorkers that watched 9/11 happen have different standards for jokes about it than Americans who watched it on TV, and they have different standards than non-Americans and Americans born after it.
Jokes about tragedies do not inherently downplay the seriousness of those tragedies. Often they rely on that seriousness to work, that’s the entire comedic crux of the Barbenheimer memes.
Obviously Japan is going to relate differently to the Barbenheimer jokes than the US, that doesn’t give us any obligation to feign offense to them.
