--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In [email protected], anon_couscous_ff > <no_reply@> wrote: > > I think the larger issue is that some people are > AFRAID of the power of comedy to reveal truth. > > Look at the basic issue being *ignored* in these > discussions (or the parts of them I see as a > result of killfiles). The basic issue is the > caste system. The original article just DEVASTATED > the concept of the caste system, rather effectively. > > So what happened? A few people tried (successfully) > to DIVERT attention away from the real subject of > the parody -- the caste system and its indefensible > evils -- and get people to focus on whether the > style of the humor was socially acceptable.
Of course we are not bound to live our lives the way you think we ought to. That it was an effective satire is obvious. Case close. That some other points of interst were raised, andpursued, doesn't mean that everyone is quite as one dimensional as you appear in this post. > As far as I can tell, these attempts WORKED. haha, thats a TELLING confession. >In the > posts that I can see, only Shemp kept trying to come > back to the real subject -- the caste system and how > much of an affront to humanity it is. Other folks > got lured into the DIVERSION, oh yes, hook line and sinker. Totally disgusting isn't. Too bad we can't stay one pointed to pursue the BIG hook you have been caught on for apparently 10 yeas: bash judy. > and got lured into > arguing with people who were (essentially) trying > to dictate to them what is permissible as humor and > what is not. HAHAHA. Thank god they are not trying to tells us what is acceptable topics of discussions are. Like you. That would be totally sick and fucked-up. > Lesson to be learned from all this: whenever someone > reacts to a joke by trying to say that the humor in > the joke is politically incorrect or racist or > demeaning, LOOK CLOSER. > > Chances are that this is a tactic, a DISTRACTION, > meant to divert attention from the thing that the > joke made people laugh at, and see a new side of. You really do appear to have merde for brains on this topic. There is a large class of humor which is sick and destructive. For example good ol' boy jokes about blacks, jews, women etc. Its quite one sided, not universal "bashing" depicting the human comedy -- a la John Stewart and South Park -- but rather class elitism, using humor to maintain racist and sexist stereotypes and rigid archaic class structures. The difference between the two are are clear on the outer edges, but less clear on the inner sides that appear to approach each other. Clarifying the distinctions is useful. Except for the eternal shit-for-brains, it appears. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
