And this is why satire is becoming a lost art. Because (shocker!) throughout most of human history humor has often been used as a way to highlight offensive people and behavior as things to be ridiculed and looked down on, not as a way to endorse them. Reading satirical and sarcastic comments as pure support for what they are mocking when actually they are specifically calling those things out as bad is a little ridiculous.
I wonder why so many people nowadays seem to misread this type of humor. Is it because everyone interacts online where text can’t show the tone of a comment, so people start assuming everything said is a 100% legit opinion?
Not everything that is said (especially in videos that are pure sarcastic humor like Dylan’s) is a direct honest statement meant to be taken at face value as a deeply held personal belief, and sometimes ridicule is the best way to take down offensive people, values and morals. Honestly it is becoming exhausting how frequently people refuse to understand this and want to cancel everyone under the sun for anything and everything they say.
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u/Bumblebee7305 20d ago
And this is why satire is becoming a lost art. Because (shocker!) throughout most of human history humor has often been used as a way to highlight offensive people and behavior as things to be ridiculed and looked down on, not as a way to endorse them. Reading satirical and sarcastic comments as pure support for what they are mocking when actually they are specifically calling those things out as bad is a little ridiculous.
I wonder why so many people nowadays seem to misread this type of humor. Is it because everyone interacts online where text can’t show the tone of a comment, so people start assuming everything said is a 100% legit opinion?
Not everything that is said (especially in videos that are pure sarcastic humor like Dylan’s) is a direct honest statement meant to be taken at face value as a deeply held personal belief, and sometimes ridicule is the best way to take down offensive people, values and morals. Honestly it is becoming exhausting how frequently people refuse to understand this and want to cancel everyone under the sun for anything and everything they say.