on Satire

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Clever and sophisticated satire is not the same as a hoax.




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Soon it will be difficult to tell what is real and what is not. Unreality will be coming at us from all over the political spectrum. Objective reality will start to break down and reality will be whatever someone is having.
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Satire is a tradition older than antiquity, and it has been fooling fools all the while. It is predicated on an objective understanding of what is real in order to poke at artifice.

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Sweeping away satire is not protective of reality. It’s giving into the notion that reality cannot be investigated and agreed upon. In fact, it seems to be the only tool which causes the otherwise postmodernist to insist upon a single interpretation of things.

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I love satire. It's an important part of free speech. It's problematic when its intention is to deceive. It becomes a lie and no longer commentary. There is a distinction.
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Satire must at least hope to deceive a few if it is to be satire. It’s effectiveness lies in the correction one part of its audience gives to the other.

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One cannot rightly claim the GIF in question was meant to deceive universally b/c the creator had no reasonable expectation of his/her work supplanting the original, as is evidenced by the many claims of “hoax.”

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The evidence of the deceit (i.e. the original video) is widely available with no apparent attempt to suppress it. This is unlike an actual hoax where the hoaxer has control of all or most of the information and suppresses the truth.

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P.S. At the time, I only knew the original video was widespread. I did not know it was from such a major outlet as Teen Vogue. LINK 


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