Level 7 Dragon said:
It largely depends on your attitude to shock humour. Yahtzee (I accidentaly typed Trump because I am sick of hearing about him all the time) does employ sexist and ableist language to provoke a reaction, however after watching all of his podcasts, I never raised a thought of him being against equality or wellbeing of marginalised demographics.
Shock humour is like acupuncture, if you don't know what you are doing, you will end up hurting people. Shock is about crossing the taboo for a short while, just long enough to make the person laugh.
Edit: No, you arn't an evil SJW. You are a loving, yet condecending parent of this forum.
Cool, condescending parent is usually the tone I'm going for, I'm glad that comes across.
Back on topic- I didn't even think about shock humour in my first post, to be honest.
I think most people aren't skilled enough to pull it off well. I think a simple guideline should be if an actual bigot was listening to you do you think they would think you were making fun of them or agreeing with them? If the latter, ya dun goofed.
And also, I think it's generally a phase most people go through, sort of "Oh look what I can say!" kind of thing that most people grow out of (or, very rarely when they're good at it- make a career of).
I do think the whole fuss over "PC" is very much an internet problem. Most people don't think of things like that in real life. They just try not to upset people, and if they do, they generally change the behaviour, rather than going mental about censoring themselves. Personally, I don't think "is this PC/un-PC to say?" ever.