IMagine The Furore If a columnist in Guardian suggests bombardment, say, conservative party conference and the Tory wall of Arundel in Sussessex. It will rule the public discussion for weeks. Despite protesting they “joke only”, that person will never work again in journalism. Some editors are definitely overwhelmed. Police may come to knock. But when the spectator’s cutter shop thought about bombing Glastonbury Festival and Brighton, complaints were met, “Palamali Loved, Don’t you get a joke?” The reporter keeps his job, like his editor, the former justice Michael Gove. There is a rule for the left and other for the right.
The same applies to The recent comments In GB News with regular Visitor Lewis Schaffer. she It is suggested thatTo minimize the number of disabled people who claim benefits, he is “only hungry. What do you do? What else do you do? The present, Patrick Christiers answered,” Yes, it’s not allowed these days. “
You can call these jokes, if you think people kill humorous. Or you can call them thinking experiments. Lanldle suggested many of his column: “I’m a hypothesisy, in a slightly bad way.” This “humor” allows obscene ideas that will prompt the one possible.
Academical researchers saw the use of jokes To break taboos and reduces hatred intervals as a form of “Strategic mainstreaming“. The distant influences use humor, irony and memes to inject public life ideas that cannot be accepted. To normalize extremism. A Study the German telegram channels Found that the remote content presented seriously achieved limited achievement, as if no political society. But when the distance extremism is presented funny, it is removed.
Humor offers gods. In his article on 3 July, after floating the possibility of killing hundreds of thousands of people, translation said: “I don’t do it, of course – it’s a terrible thing to do.” You can never forget the Wink. Such assumptions have written Misogyny, homophobia and racism in decades: “You have lost your sense of humor, love?” – Wink, Wink. They set the writer from the purpose, and gives moral covering for the platform owners (the hectomillillion of the platapora and Christian evangelist Paul Marshall both owners of the advisor and co-owner of GB News). Maybe we can call it winding murger.
If people can be desensitised by ironic calls for violence, the difference between a humorous position and an ideological conviction may begin to break. Some researchers say they will suffer “toxic toxic” begin to absorb and confirm them. The odds are anything fun.
Before launching his attack on Christchurch, New Zealand, White Supremacist Brenton Tarrant his purpose was informed With a “funny” meme In forum 8chan. The same phrase was painted in his rifle. After the attack, where he killed 51 people, the distant influences made a mockery, creating, among other entertainment entertainment, a game roblox version In the shooting of mass.
It is stimulated how often those who have the invokers of encouragement and violence show that these prompts. Liddle accepts a policeman warning for alleged attack on his pregnant girlfriend (which he later denied). Jeremy Clarkson suggested Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, must be “made by the parade naked on the streets of each British town while people sing, ‘Shame!’ and throw the lumps for going out “. she Sayed with the relieving workers in the public sector“I shot them all. I’ll take them out and kill them in front of their families.” In real life, he Launched an unbearable attack to his producer.
Maybe, if strikers haven’t been shot yet, concerts – And, for that matter, Tighrigon – Not being bombed, disabled people have never been hungry or shot and women have not been humiliated and attacked by public areas, such encouragement can be less than a problem. But all these things happened, and all were more likely to happen if the threshold of ugdectubility was reduced by irony and humor.
As a president secretary, Boris Johnson jokes About UK investors who shifted the city of Libya to a new Dubai: “The only thing they do is move away from the dead bodies and then they are.” When he became the Prime Minister, he appeared that his rhetoric rhetoric. Diaries on the former principal adviser to the main scientist Sir Patrick News Johnson was prompted to endorse the idea That covid “is the way of dealing with older people”. They have to accept their fate, “allow young people to continue life and (continue) the economy go”. Coven Interview told to ask Johnson“Why are we destroying the economy for people who die yet?” Many insidadors claim (even if he denies it) that He said “No more fucking lockdowns – let the bodies gather their thousands”. On one side as a result of his psychopathic levels of insult and neglect, More than 200,000 UK citizens died with the disease. We are chortle, then know that it means it.
The “funny” memes like a frog’s pepping and carrying, while initially used innocuously, done Vehicles deny and cleans the cruelty of Nazi. Anyone who oppose is told to “light up” or “take a sense of laughter”. Then we looked like the President of the United States adopted the frog of meme And his sidekick Elon Musk name his great attack on federal expenditure after the doge meme. I’m sure they both find quiet.
The dominant powers have several centuries used clowns to express their deep, most prompting of non-religious. The funny suggestions of violence reveal and uol real desires. Liddle and Schaffer preferences are presented outliers laughed at, or, if they caused a lot of trouble for their bosses, lightly repressed. But in some parts they give a closer representation of building facts than any more heavy editorial. They check our defenses. They soften us for violence and misrule. They are not an anomaly. They are a room. This is the clowning that kills us.
George Monbiot is a columnist in Guardian
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