Name: With Friends Like These
Issue: Your niece raised quite the stink earlier this week after a popular television network aired a rerun of the series "Enemies", a show packed with offensive humor which ran almost twenty-five years ago.
Validity: has television, medium to high inclusiveness, no state run media
[Option 1] My eyes!" screeches your niece, obviously distressed and trembling with shock. "How did anyone ever find this funny? It's just sick, absolutely sick. Like that one episode when they pejoratively used the appellation 'gay' to describe someone who was being emotionally vulnerable? Disgusting! You've got to ban re-runs of bigoted shows like this once and for all, so no one else will have to endure these offensive horrors!"
[effect] television characters who ask how someone's doing will be charged with harassment
[Option 2] "Hey, what’s the dealo?" questions Ross @@RANDOMLASTNAME@@, one of the stars of the show in question. "The show's a classic, man. I mean, you couldn’t get away with saying half the stuff that we did, but you'd be destroying a national masterpiece. We need to keep this to teach people what @@NAME@@ use to be like. Keep the history, man, don't ever be censoring entertainment!"
[effect] rant-filled slur-packed stereotype-fest 'Hate Thy Neighbor' has been revived
[Option 3] "Heh, have I got a solution for you?" mutters your bored looking Minister of Propaganda twiddling @@HIS@@ thumbs absent-mindedly. "My ministry will personally take control of producing content that will both be inoffensive and pro-government. While we're at it, give us control of news media too. We will control the horizontal. We will control the vertical."
[effect] every network seemingly has a fascination for @@LEADER@@
[Option 4]"For Violet's sake, the average @@DEMONYM@@ has gotten far too soft," comments one of your brothers, looking at your niece with disgust. "We need to educate them to have thicker skin and take a joke or two, no matter how crude. How about we add a class or two in our education system that'll teach 'em how to handle some humor?"
[effect] everyone’s a comedian