The Trevor Noah Twitter fiasco of 2015 may mark a cultural turning point: Outrage is out, and outrage about outrage is in. On Wednesday, comedian Patton Oswalt published a 53-tweet tirade that sarcastically apologized for a "problematic" punchline and warned Noah that in 2015, “Jokes should always entertain. EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO HEARS THEM.” Another comic, Jim Norton, wrote a scathing post at Time, saying that "Americans have collectively become the most hypersensitive group of whining milksops ever assembled under one flag" and that Noah "forgot that in the new millennium, there is a seemingly endless checklist of subject matter that has been deemed inappropriate to address with humor."
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