Man too far into prejudiced opinion to laugh it off as a joke
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- 16 Feb 2023
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A Man has committed to an unfounded and narrow-minded belief so fully that he can no longer back out by saying it was a joke.
Joshua Hudson started to panic as he realised his friends fundamentally disagreed with his prejudiced opinion and there was no way he could laugh it off.
He said: “At first I thought we were all on the same page because they laughed along. But maybe they were laughing ironically and they thought I was taking the piss. I wasn’t.
“I blustered on, digging a deeper hole for myself by reinforcing my opinion with baseless statistics I’d read on the internet. That’s when they started looking stern and saying things like ‘Are you being serious?’ and ‘What the f**k, mate?’
“Even then I could have defused the situation with a cheeky wink and telling them I’d tricked them. But I doubled down and claimed I was just saying what everyone was thinking. I checkmated myself.
“In fact, saying I’m joking at this point would contradict some of my previous points, and they’d definitely know I was being serious all along. I don’t know what to do. Send help.”
Friend Tom Booker said: “I always suspected Josh was a wrong ’un. Still, he deflected attention from the even dodgier comment I made before he arrived.” Read More…
