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Victims of jokes must not only be politicians and royalty, but also arrogant people from lower classes should be mentioned by comedians.

Every joke needs a victim and one needs to include people from lower down the society and not just the upper class.

Cancel culture does not understand the role and duty of comedians, which is to deride and mock everyone.

All jokes target someone and one should be able to joke about anyone in the society, which is inconsistent with cancel culture.

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