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You don’t get it. It’s uncivil to police jokes.

Instead of starting with blame and condescension of your own, try to seek understanding from the people you accuse.

Every profession that is about caring for other people have these jokes because it is necessary to maintain some distance from human suffering to remain professionally functional. Humour makes it possible to maintain two dissonant thoughts in one’s head.

It’s in the very website linked here. The sense of powerlessness and malaise and desperation shared between the patients and their caregivers. What else does one do to come into work the next day and keep at working to improve a hopeless task?



> It’s uncivil to police jokes

I 100% agree!

This isn't a joke, it's an insult.


You are projecting your own feelings. You need to seek understanding before casting judgment.

It’s absolutely not an insult. It is a lament.




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