“It was just a joke!”
Sure. It also wasn’t very funny and it bombed. And now you have to deal with that.
“You can’t even tell a joke anymore!?”
You can and you did. And people can react to it. Here we are.
“I’m being SILENCED”
Damn I wish you were but here I am, still hearing you
Having a national platform but not being unanimously adored == censorship.