Thank you for the clarification, Sov, that really helps me to understand more about your posting. And my apology for getting my feathers all ruffled, when that was not your intent.
There's a nuance between these two incidents that I think confuses you. Based on your postings, my impression is that you are more comfortable with direct, literal interpretations and can be thrown a bit off balance when posts are more dependent on shades of gray and tone.
Your post about stats on incest was very straightforward, so there really wasn't any scope for laughter, by anyone. Kamilah's post, in contrast, was poking fun at a stereotype of Southerners; the focus of the joke was that stereotype, not the incest. As a resident of West Virginia, where this stereotype is rather strongly associated, I laughed out of recognition of the joke.
The reason we all knew the laughter was inappropriate was the death of the wife and daughter. That is certainly no laughing matter, but the stereotype joke overcame our sense of common decency, and some of us laughed anyway. We weren't laughing at the incest either, which -- like the death of the women -- is not a laughing matter.
Make sense now?
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