Re:The Onion defends right to parody in Supreme Court brief
by ZeroGravitas on Tuesday October 04, 2022 @11:08AM
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> What they are satirizing is in her acceptance speech she talked about "family, god and country" and the left immediately called her fascist for it
See, I don't think that's a thing that happened. And if you satirise something that never happened, but your audience all think happened, because someone on Twitter told them it happened then you're in a weird area.
And I can see how that could happen in other online cliques too. I think if it happened in a clique I was in and cared about, I'd call it out, not celebrate it. But that assumes you know it didn't happen, and that you care.
So fundamentally it's not the satire that's the problem, it's groups of people believing stuff that isn't true.
See, I don't think that's a thing that happened. And if you satirise something that never happened, but your audience all think happened, because someone on Twitter told them it happened then you're in a weird area.
And I can see how that could happen in other online cliques too. I think if it happened in a clique I was in and cared about, I'd call it out, not celebrate it. But that assumes you know it didn't happen, and that you care.
So fundamentally it's not the satire that's the problem, it's groups of people believing stuff that isn't true.