The Onion Staff to Go on Strike Wednesday Barring 11th Hour Deal
The Onion Staff to Go on Strike Wednesday Barring 11th Hour Deal
“We do not take the decision to go on an open-ended ULP strike lightly, but we have to take a stand for what is just,” the guild says
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no, it isn't. It is 100% intending to suggest that anyone saying anything about racism is just virtue signaling. That is what comedic caricatures are for. They mock behavior by exaggeration and over simplification in order to discredit a viewpoint or people.
Nope. You're, as usual, 100% wrong.
You're ascribing intent that is not at all evident in the video.
It's a video of a silly person doing something more silly than most real people ever would, in order to promote how virtuous she is, which isn't helping anyone. That's all it is. That's the caricature.
There's no part of it that suggests that all mention of racism is virtue signaling. That's YOUR thought. Whether or not you agree with it, that originated with YOU, not the video.
You are asking too much from someone who thinks being woke is a bad thing.
Which is why I objected to declaring all anti-racist behavior by whites as virtue signaling? you've got some amazing alternative logic going on there.
So you admit that it is a caricature intended to mock anti-racist activists as nothing but virtue singling attention seekers, but think it is nothing more despite that being exactly what theater has used it for for the entirety of the Human existence. cool, cool.
Nope. I JUST explained to you how it ISN'T that.
Whilst I do agree that The Onion often takes something and runs with it to create an extreme situation hoping to bump into humour...
....they're still making choices about what aspects to run with. They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative and made them run away with being I don't know, so unpolitically correct that they become politically correct again. I don't know, that's just off the top of my head, but the point is they are choosing who they mock.
...and they used to choose more substantial issues.
They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative
Nope, you can't take something that's already exaggerated past the point of self-parody and then parody it.
they're still making choices about what aspects to run with.
Which in this case is unhelpful virtue signaling taking attention away from honest anti-racism that's actually about helping people.
Nope, you can’t take something that’s already exaggerated past the point of self-parody and then parody it.
Why?
And what exactly is past self-parody? What comes after that? (Besides 'plaid'.)
Because you can't exaggerate something to make it ridiculous when it's already so ridiculous.
Bad faith communicators like him already take their outrageous rhetoric and false conclusions farther than any funny parody would, effectively making them impossible to humorously satirize.
Please do tell us more about how racism is solved and not an issue anyone would genuinely think needs to be addressed.
I never claimed any such thing, nor would I ever. Do you ever say anything that's NOT about a ridiculous strawman you concocted in your mostly empty head?
And note the "already exaggerated past the point of self-parody" their entire point is in fact exactly that anti-racists are nothing but self aggrandizing attention seekers.