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He absolutely did have every right to make that comic. And his audience had every right to respond “Whahahahahahat the fuck was that?”

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His audience was a bunch of childish crass pussies.

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6 points

He should have know is audience were that

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We should not default to respecting that audience’s reaction.

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That was the intended audience for the comic at the time, though.

CAD was very much immature nerd humour (as was the style at the time), and it’d be inevitable that a sudden tonal whiplash to a serious tragedy around a miscarriage, out of seeming nowhere, would be received poorly.

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For preserving the least toxic and most culturally relevant Tumblr heritage posts.

Image descriptions and plain text captions of written content are expected of all screenshots. Here are some image text extractors (I looked these up quick and will gladly take FOSS recommendations):

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Please begin copied raw text posts (lacking a screenshot that makes it apparent it is from Tumblr) with:

# This has been reposted here to Lemmy as part of the “Curated Tumblr Project.”

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