One of the aspects of humor that a prevailing culture willfully ignores is that the injustice of humor manifests itself in the humor of injustice.

From "Humor Neutral: Post-Modernism, the Prisoner and the Construct of Culture":

One of the aspects of humor that a prevailing culture willfully ignores is that the injustice of humor manifests itself in the humor of injustice. Humor cannot be found in equals: there is always a hierarchy to even the most innocent-seeming joke -- and when there is hierarchy there is oppression...

Even a joke that -- on the surface -- makes fun of the rich is, in actuality, merely codifying the position, and privileges, of wealth. When we talk of a thousand lawyers at the bottom of the sea it is obvious that, due to their societal position, they will never in fact be found there: a truly progressive humor would require them to actually be there, placed by their oppressors, but such an action would no longer be humor, but rather a question of social justice...

I am Laslo.

https://althouse.blogspot.com/2017/07/humor-is-now-news.html