Friend of mine and I were talking some weeks ago, and we have a tendency to occasionally come up with puns on the fly.
So, he comes up with one and was evidently proud enough of it that he decided to take a picture of it for Faceplace...
He made a couple of loops with a rope and laid them over a low branch of a paper birch or shag bark hickory or some other tree that has really shaggy bark that peels off in strips, and captioned it "The bark is worse than the bight..."
Uhm... are you really going to post that on FB?
Sure, why?
You're going to post a picture of a rope in a tree in this political environment? The look on his face when he realized what I was asking was a combination of shock, disgust, horror, and relief...
Yeah, it's a harmless pun... except it's a rope in a tree...
Absolutely no indication of a noose. No indication of racial overtones. No threat. No nothing other than a pun. But it's a rope in a tree.
And it can't be posted because of the current environment and the mad rush to find offense.