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CMV: If you make offensive jokes about certain topics, you can’t tell someone else not to make a joke about a topic you find offensive

I regularly tell offensive jokes about various topics with my friends. We laugh, and don’t take it too seriously. Race, religion, anything really. A friend made a joke to me about the trending #metoo, and seeing how many of my friends had posted about their experiences with sexual harassment, I didn’t feel comfortable joking about it, but I didn’t tell my friend to stop making those jokes either. 

Another friend said I’d be right to tell him not to joke about it, but I disagreed. What do you think?
gpt
'You shouldnt say that because it offends me' is not a real thing that real people say, it is a strawman that people use to unfavorably characterize people who oppose them.

When real people say 'you shouldn't joke about that', it is typically because they believe the joke causes some type of real damage, such as by affirming and reinforcing racist/sexist institutions that cause real harm, or emboldening real criminals, or retraumatizing real victims.

If you object to one offensive joke because you believe it causes harm, but are fine with another offensive joke because you dont think it causes harm, theres nothing inconsistent or hypocritical about that. 

Now, you might be factually incorrect in some of your specific judgements about what does or does not cause harm, but thats a case-by-case factual question, which can't be generalized to the type of universal mandate you're advocating.