What's more sad about this-The fact that allergy sufferers bothered to complain, or that Sony apologized in the first place? We are living in the most thin skinned and fragile culture that I've ever seen. You can't just blame millennials either-there are thin skinned members of every generation-but you can partially blame the internet, which is very good at making a big deal out of nothing.
All humor is, to some degree, based on cruelty. Part of you is laughing at the screen because it's not happening to you. Oh sure, in theory a joke about anything can be taken too far, but we've become so sensitive that any writer or comedian has to be extremely careful of the people effected by said joke will post on their Twitters and Facebook how outraged they are.
I think the like playing the victim card. Every can play the victim card at one point or another in their life but strong people usually find ways to overcome jokes (whether the joke is playful or hurtful or both) and move on. If the biggest complaint in your life is about the jokes in Peter Cottontail, than your life is going quite well.
A depressing news story, that's for sure.
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