Schrodinger’s asshole: someone who claims to be joking when and only when everyone is horrified at what he said in earnest.
Then you hire him, and the next time he pulls this shit (and there will be a next time) you can wag your finger at him and say “now now, that’s not very nice.”
So when someone does something socially unacceptable, we let it slide?
That’s kinda not the definition of “unacceptable”.
Of course, back in the day, different things were unacceptable. Off-color jokes were socially acceptable, but being gay or trans (or black) was not.
Statements about using children as pawns to further a political agenda were also not.
That wasn’t comedy, it wasn’t a crime, it certainly wasn’t “culture”, and nothing is dead, so what are you on about?
