Are you confusing "making fun of" with "offensive", or "punching down"? These are not the same things.
Exactly.
You don't get to determine the rules and context of communication for other people, you only get to determine them for yourself. I don't mean rules and context in a modern political and/or cultural sense, I mean them in a basic interpretive sense.
The text is in the eye of the beholder. Not in the eye of the mob who didn't read the text.