to think offensive jokes...

[lauratheexplorer]

are sick and not to my taste but the outrage of people on Facebook and such sites is ridiculous?

There is bad taste and sick humour everywhere. If you don't like it, don't look at it. People are crying out to get the page removed and threats to the creators or anyone who thinks it's funny are being thrown. I think censorship is an even bigger issue than people being offended by sick jokes but according to my friends IABU and therefore am sick myself for not calling out for it to be banned.

AIBU?

Pictures ?

Words fail me.

Nasty people.

I am having serious doubts about our friendship now especially as she knows why I'm offended but just choosing to take a different perspective. It's a difference of opinion like we had over A Serbian Film (don't Google). She said she hoped all involved would go through the events in the film but I said while I wouldn't watch it and think it's too far over the line for me as a horror fan that it was just a film and had every right to be made as a fluffy romantic comedy. We just agreed to disagree but now I don't think we can which has upset me a bit. That's why I needed to know if I was BU as to whether to apologise or not.

Pictures?! I've not seen any thank God.

I think it's a lot of fuss over nothing.

It's a page that nobody is forcing anybody else to look at. My brother used to tell loads of those "dead baby jokes" when he was 10 (he's now 27!). They've been around at least 20 years if not more. It's puerile and childish, and a bit of a sick sense of humour, but I don't think it can be described as "mocking someone who is grieving for a dead child". There is no targeting of parents who have lost a child; hurtful as the subject may be it is not directed at anyone, just a generalised bad-taste topic. There's a lot worse on the Internet than just offensive humour that you have to actively seek to find.

It's not hard to avoid those kind of "jokes" if you find them offensive, hurtful, or just distasteful. I think making it a Facebook cause célèbre is more harm than help, and it should be left firmly in the realm of 10 year olds, as before.

I would have no hesitation cutting someone who said that to me out of my life.

Does it not make you wonder what she may say about you behind your back ?

Huh. X-posted. Did not realise there were pictures, but then it's not the kind of page I have any interest in exploring.

I have to say, apart from one or two people's "Like if you think Facebook should BAN this!!1!!" activity in my news feed, I've not seen anything of it. Because I'm not interested, either in the content or in seeking out things to be offended about.

It's not just dead baby jokes though, there's people on there saying how they'd like to kill babies and men saying what they would like to do to dead babies.

'I do not agree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it.' (Voltaire)

Nuff said.

One more reason why I'm glad I don't do facebook (as if I needed any more).

It does now. Apart from that difference in opinion I've never had a reason to believe she was saying anything behind my back. She keeps sending me abuse on Facebook to the point I've had to block her.

facebook generally doesnt take down offensive stuff just illegal stuff, to whoever said about making a page insulting religion, try it, there are many such pages and many counterpages calling for their removal, but ten thousand people reporting a page wont get it removed.

Laura

With friends like her, who needs enemies ?

You're better off without, I think.

I think that some of the jokes are just horrific. The worst ones in myopinion were the ones of a sexual nature. I think anyone that can make peado jokes is wrong in the head.

It's best to ignore. People who post horrible stuff like that are getting off on the attention. There's loads of pages on fb about disabled children, calling children with downs syndrome 'potato' etc.

There was recently a thread on fb where one of my friends where encouraging people to post on the wall of that page to say how disgusting it was. I said don't do anything like that! They want to offend. If they're managing it, then they're getting what they want, basically rewarding them for the behaviour.

It's best to ignore ignore ignore. You won't change their sick, twisted opinions, you'll only make them happy for any attention.

Ignore.

i have facebook open all day usually on my laptop and i have 200 facebook friends but i have NEVER heard of the page you're talking about.
facebook is just a tool, like the internet, i know there's distasteful stuff on the internet but i don't go looking for it and neither does anybody i'd call a friend, same for facebook... and going looking for distasteful things in order to condemn them is just as voyeuristic as looking for them because you find them funny imo.