Assertion: elephant joke | /r/HasProperty | interpreted as stand-ins
Facets:
value: during the civil rights era
type: TEMPORAL
value: for american blacks
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
value: variously
type: DEGREE
Source sentences:
text: Dead baby jokes are posited to reflect societal changes and guilt caused by widespread use of contraception and abortion beginning in the 1960s.[note 5] Elephant jokes have been interpreted variously as stand-ins for American blacks during the Civil Rights Era or as an "image of something large and wild abroad in the land captur[ing] the sense of counterculture" of the sixties.