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Once-Acceptable Targets

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In the past, we like to think, there were many more Acceptable Targets than there are today. Back then, unlike the present, an easy source of humor was to select people with a different appearance, culture, religion or gender from the assumed audience, treat them as inferior, and make fun of them. Incidentally, a group may be listed on this page as a Once-Acceptable Target, and still be oppressed, persecuted, mocked, negatively stereotyped or discriminated against today. It's just not quite as universally endorsed anymore. Examples of Once-Acceptable Targets include:

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In the past, we like to think, there were many more Acceptable Targets than there are today. Back then, unlike the present, an easy source of humor was to select people with a different appearance, culture, religion or gender from the assumed audience, treat them as inferior, and make fun of them. Some of these targets are no longer popular. In some cases, times have changed, and what was funny in 1935 simply is not funny now. More importantly perhaps, changed economic and political circumstances have transformed some previously-despised target groups into valuable demographics that it is unwise to antagonise. Some feel, particularly those who would prefer to go on picking on these Once-Acceptable Targets, that these changes can be "blamed" on Political Correctness Gone Mad, but this is very much an area where Your Mileage May Vary. Dead Baby Comedy will laugh at Once-Acceptable Targets as much as possible with the express purpose of causing a hostile reaction. Incidentally, a group may be listed on this page as a Once-Acceptable Target, and still be oppressed, persecuted, mocked, negatively stereotyped or discriminated against today. It's just not quite as universally endorsed anymore. See also Acceptable Targets, Unacceptable Targets, Positive Discrimination, Values Dissonance. Examples of Once-Acceptable Targets include: