The other day my Jewish friend and I were cracking Hitler jokes and her boyfriend got really upset that we would make light of such a bad situation, but people make light of situations all the time. There are Hitler jokes, black jokes, gay jokes, MI jokes, 9/11 jokes, Columbine/Aurora jokes...There's really no limit as to what people can make light of, but is it really such a bad thing? Why do people make light of bad situations? Is it just how people deal with it? I make jokes like that all the time, but it's not like I'm ignorant to how bad those things are, I can't really explain it, I think it's okay around the right people.
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