Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 6:27 a.m. No.14974532   🗄️.is 🔗kun

Why the Woke Can’t Take a Joke

The anti-Chappelle revolt at Netflix shows leftism’s weakness.

By Kyle Mann

Nov. 9, 2021 12:41 pm ET

 

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Demonstrators supporting and protesting the Netflix walkout over Dave Chappelle’s comedy special gather in Los Angeles, Oct. 20.

PHOTO: FREDERIC J. BROWN/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES

 

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‘It is the test of a good religion whether you can joke about it,” G.K. Chesterton observed more than 100 years ago. The Laughing Prophet, as he was known, pointed out that people who are secure in their beliefs need not fear mockery. It’s those with shaky doctrines who can’t tolerate laughter. Today’s political radicals hold their views with the fervor of a religion, and by Chesterton’s measure they’re rather weak creeds.

 

As Dave Chappelle recently found out, mocking the left’s dearly held dogma will provoke outrage and uproar the likes of which would make the religious right of Satanic Panic fame look grounded and sane. You are allowed to make jokes, the left declares, as long as they target the right people—or rather, the people the left thinks are wrong. Anyone in their congregation is off limits.

 

But the recent dustup over Mr. Chappelle only further demonstratesthe true power of political satire and comedy. It can shine a light on the unflattering traits of those controlling our cultural institutions. Funny is funny, even in a time of political polarization and censorship. Comedy can get people of all stripes laughing and dole out a little truth while their guard is down. This is why, from woke boardrooms to the White House and elite universities, those wielding cultural power today can’t abide humor that illuminates their moral failures, their hypocrisy and the ultimate bankruptcy of their worldviews. Jokes intended to provoke a good-natured laugh are now met with calls for censorship, boycotts and even “fact checks.”

 

Satire in all its forms—from online satirical papers like the Babylon Bee and the Onion to the pre-Trump days of Stephen Colbert and John Oliver —is the little boy turning the world on its head by pointing out that the emperor has no clothes. The kid isn’t scheming to start a political revolution or even really telling a joke. He’s dryly stating the obvious, not having yet learned the rules of polite society.

 

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Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 6:48 a.m. No.14974647   🗄️.is 🔗kun

The experiment should be every journalist repeating this drivel should face the same conditions Kyle faced and see if they survive.Hunger games for retards!

 

https://twitter.com/JackPosobiec/status/1458614876977385474?s=20

Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 6:52 a.m. No.14974672   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4686 >>4722

>>14974640

I like tge way tgey say “I am highly educated”, it only means brainwashed to be any BS tye professors told you. But they are still proud of saying it.

 

They should start with “I thought I was highly educated, But am not!

Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 6:56 a.m. No.14974697   🗄️.is 🔗kun   >>4705 >>4717

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How can one be highly educated but only reasonably perceptive? She must memorize but not understand concepts. Wouldnt one have to perceive the subjects they are studying to be highly educated. Robotic learning

Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 7:02 a.m. No.14974729   🗄️.is 🔗kun

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Leland J. Unruh III

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Interestingly enough, the NYT actually had a decent timeline that they wrote-up on this in the immediate aftermath. Reading that is what convinced me that Mr. Rittenhouse would have a very good self-defense claim to make if the state bothered to bring it to trial at all.

 

Sarah Beth Burwick

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And I should not have used the term “victims.”

 

GEM1963

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I assumed the same.

 

Larry Phillips

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Victims?

 

All my friends irl are turning into bootlickers

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Still are sadly

 

Mrs. Murdersmith

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You have to take absolutely everything the media says with a grain of salt. EVERYTHING. There's always more to the situation.

 

snark | 299 Pico Street

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Part of the problem too is that many believe that the riots in Kenosha were peaceful protests, and for that reason they can’t understand why someone would travel there w a gun. Worth revisiting the destruction/violence that took place there for multiple nights

 

John Galt

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absolutely a great point

 

 

Geoff “TallNuts” Axworthy

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I don’t think the progressive out there really understand how much the rioting was a turn off to moderates or just left of center types, and left leaning news media coverage was attempting to gaslight us while we watched it all on tv and social media for ourselves

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they weren't even victims

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Yet unless you stop watch corporate media completely, you’ve learned nothing.

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i thought it was clear that those he killed and shot were white men. they are only calling him a WS based off hand gestures he's made and the fact that he's garnered support from WS circles.

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Libertarian Party of Connecticut

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That bubble is destroying your humanity.

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Well its really taking us all down

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Crichton was fearless.

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Rusty

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Now, consider what else you might have been misled about…

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Gary Johnston

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Kyle's mom is Hispanic. Also, they are not victims, they are would be assailants.

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CJ

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How is that even possible? Did you not see the video at the time?

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Girl, that's on you and not whatever "progressive bubble" you think that you are in.

Anonymous ID: 94ec7a Nov. 11, 2021, 7:11 a.m. No.14974787   🗄️.is 🔗kun

>>14974705

Comments are funny and enlightening

CarellaJoe

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Does the color of the shooting victims matter for you?

And now the color change causes you to rethink your position?

Consider therapy.

 

BeastlorionUp-pointing red triangleGhost

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Skin color shouldn't affect your judgement. If it has then you should do some deep thinking on that.

 

spiraling_into_control

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what if i told you everything you know is a lie and it all has to be relearned? narratives have been controlled since probably forever. it's time we start taking information in and drawing our own conclusions. if someone wants to hand me one….automatic disqualification

 

Alexis Navaro

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Morpheus, that you?

 

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When did you learn the business he was protecting was minority owned and the Militia they tried to link him to was Latino? Did you know Kyles entire family with the exception of his mom and sisters lived in Kenosha?