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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

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'.)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Please do tell us more about how racism is solved and not an issue anyone would genuinely think needs to be addressed.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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.