Make fun of everything. Nothing should be out of bounds. That’s my motto.

There has been a lot of discussion recently about where to draw the line in terms of humor, especially with Donald Trump’s condemning SNL’s influence on politics and calling it “bias.” Putting bounds around comedy, I contend, is almost as dangerous as the President Elect himself.

In this current climate, we no longer know how to take a joke. We’ve forgotten the true purpose of humor: To help cope with tragedy and dark subjects.

The day we can make fun of a black jewish lesbian in a wheelchair without a person who’s not a black jewish lesbian in a wheelchair feeling uncomfortable is a day we can all finally relax.  Looking for ways to be offended on another group’s behalf doesn’t do you, or the group for that matter, any good. We need to stop this political correctness. It’s not healthy. And it doesn’t support the true art of comedy.

Joking about safe material makes your jokes 100 times less funny. It’s probably helpful that I have absolutely zero sense of shame and will literally talk about anything (see: my Halloween article), but I think comedy allows people who are not as obnoxious to bring out this side of themselves. You have to be brutally honest. Good comedy makes what is usually untouchable available to discuss. Humor feeds off of discomfort. That’s the point.

I have to acknowledge the fact that I am white, and while I might have been in the situation of being faced with a joke about my gender–females, while oppressed, are not a minority. I will never pretend to know what it feels like to be a minority on the other end of a joke. Saying this, I implore you to hold your judgement and let the joke be told. Once it is told, you are fully able to criticize it if it is unnecessarily offensive, and I completely support you.

When we censor what is ok and not ok to joke about, this discomfort is left dormant. SNL helps reach people that would otherwise not be involved in politics and inspires them to take a stance on issues important to them. Yes, Donald, SNL is “bias.” Duh. That’s kinda the point. For comedy to be good it needs to have a meaning. A point to prove through the joke. And Alec Baldwin’s impression is spot on. When there’s not a point, like when Trump cruelly mocked a disabled reporter, that is where the line should be drawn. Not when a popular satirical show does a funny impression of one of the most powerful men in the world.

Face it, the fact that a guy believed fake news that democratic officials were running an underage prostitution ring and performing occult rituals out of a D.C. pizza joint is hilarious. Yes, it’s deeply concerning that someone went as far as to bring a firearm into a pizza place because of fake news. But if we don’t begin to laugh at the ridiculous things that go on in our country, we will never survive the next four years.

I’m not saying you don’t have the right to be offended. You absolutely do. If someone has the right to say it, you have the right to be offended. I’m saying you shouldn’t be offended. Comedy is a beautiful thing. It has the ability to take down the most powerful and treat them as equally as the most oppressed. Comedy is one of the few mediums available to take down Donald Trump. Anything else said about him is deemed a lie.

The best comedy has to be offensive in order to prove that it’s good. The danger arises when the pressure to be politically correct leads to self censorship.