How does the right tear down progressive societies? It starts with a joke | George Monbiot Highlight

When people become desensitised by ironic calls for violence, the difference between a humorous position and an ideological conviction can begin to break down. They are said by some researchers to suffer from “irony poisoning”. If, for example, people are repeatedly exposed to racial stereotypes in “humorous” form, they are likely to lose perspective, and start to absorb and affirm them. The results are anything but amusing.