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Political Satire and Meme Megathread

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Give it a rest - jokes commenting on racism are not racist. The target of the humour in that meme is racist fucking people.
You know - the sort of people who perpeuate the typical double-standards when it comes to violence.
Like when people claim all muslims "terrorists", but consider neo-nazi terrorists "activists".

Apparently to some people, murderers are much scarier and more threatening to society when they've got darker skin pigmentation.

Pointing that out is not racist.


Lolwut?
That's classic conspiracy nuttery.
A whole theory hanging on a guy going to antarctica, which apparently doesn't make sense to whoever made that meme - why not visit antarctica, if you have the chance?

And their evidence of what sort of facilities there are in the place kerry visited were solely sourced from satellite photos? The conjecture that follows is simply insane.

As funny as that is, it's depressing how many people seem to buy into such preposterous delusions.
It's a pretty sad reflection of some people's ability to think critically.
 
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^ Sorry I just dont get it. Maybe i dont get the reference or am a foreigner.

Ironic racism is still racism thread doesnt help explain.

I dont think alis post is racist but have thought some others judged as racist as not being racist.

This is why the whole topic isnt black and white.
 
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This isnt a cartoon or meme but one of our own bluelighters having a bit of a joke on the grey ghost parking inspectors.

Im so proud

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Nah people have a right to say anything they want to say, no matter how misguided
i think it's important to reinforce that this is not true on bluelight. you are bound by the user agreement and the user agreement is enforced by (and interpreted at the discretion of) bluelight staff. there is no freedom of speech at bluelight.

if you feel this is unfair or outrageous, that's a perfectly valid opinion, but it does not change anything. if you feel it's too burdensome or unacceptable to you, then you may need to consider your own participation.

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^ He was referring to twitter not bluelight. Memes alasdairm. Squabbling between some of you staff and him is just as tiring viewing it as it is arguing about it. Maybe if you guys clearly irritate each other then stop conversing and back off, its lame old and a total bore.

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This isnt an image but a pretty interesting read about satire, the image associated with it is a bit lame but will add to keep on topic in a sec.

Academia may now be beyond satire

By George Will

The Chronicle of Higher Education, which is a window on the sometimes weird world of academia, recently revisited a hilarious intellectual hoax from 20 years ago. Reading the recollections of the perpetrator and of some who swallowed his gibberish is sobering.

In 1996, Alan Sokal, a New York University physicist and self-described “academic leftist,” composed an essay that was a word salad of solemn academic jargon. He said he strove to be “especially egregious,” by maundering on about “the dialectical emphases” of “catastrophe theory” becoming a “concrete tool of progressive political praxis.” His essay’s gaudy title was: “Transgressing the Boundaries: Toward a Transformative Hermeneutics of Quantum Gravity.”

He sent it to the left-leaning “cultural studies” journal Social Text, which swooned, perhaps in part because Sokal larded his nonsense with political tropes that are catnip to lettered leftists — “emancipatory mathematics,” “demystify and democratize the production of scientific knowledge,” “the crisis of late-capitalist production relations.” Soon after Social Text published his faux scholarship, Sokal revealed in another journal, Lingua Franca, that it was a parody.

This would have been obvious to anyone whose intelligence had not been anesthetized by the patois of “deconstructionist” and “poststructuralist” professors. They move on to Nietzsche’s assertion that there are no facts, only interpretations, which he wrote shortly before going mad at age 44. They begin with a few banalities: Science is influenced by political and social forces; literature is conditioned by the writers’ contexts. And they arrive at the doctrine that everything from science to sexuality is a “social construct” reflective of society’s power relations, and therefore everything is arbitrary and political.

[This month], Bruce Robbins, a Columbia University humanities professor who was a co-editor of Social Text, tells The Chronicle of Higher Education that Sokal’s essay appealed because he seemed to be a scientist “kind of on ‘our side.’” Robbins and another Social Text editor promptly claimed victim status, saying that “the deceptive means by which Sokal chose to make his point” will injure “the openness of intellectual inquiry.”



The epistemology Sokal attacked precludes serious discussion of knowable realities. What Sokal exposed was — and remains — radical relativism that asserts the impossibility of serious science and scholarship.

Today, Sokal, who seems eager to make amends for his good deed, claims “a small amount of credit” for what he says is diminished ardor for radical epistemological relativism. But he says “the main credit” belongs to — wait for it — George W. Bush, who discredited “science bashing.” Sokal and kindred spirits — he seems to be safely back in the bubble — tell the Chronicle that the real problem is “anti-intellectualism” off campus: “academic expertise” is under attack, “epistemological skepticism” by “the right” is abetting climate change, etc.

Twenty years on, one lesson of Sokal’s hoax is that many educators are uneducable. Another is that although wonderful sendups have been written about academia (e.g., Randall Jarrell’s “Pictures from an Institution”), it now might be beyond satire.
 
^ He was referring to twitter not bluelight

Thanks I thought that was fucking obvious. Although I meant more IRL/in general, as Twitter doesn't really have freedom of speech either. They lean very far left and Project Veritas exposed Twitter employees as shadow-banning conservatives and suppressing their thoughts.

And yes I realize I have zero freedom of speech here. I cannot even give my opinion here, because anything can be considered 'offensive' by a moderator and then simply removed. Don't like it? Too bad- this moderator says you've violated the user agreement and that's that. Doesn't matter that I wasn't racist, sexist or offensive, destroying liberal arguments is considered an offensive, personal attack.
 
Thanks I thought that was fucking obvious.
i sometimes think things are fucking obvious and it turns out i have not communicated them as well as i thought i had given the limitations of the medium...

And yes I realize I have zero freedom of speech here. I cannot even give my opinion here...
that's odd because you've posted 645 posts which are still here for anybody to read. seems like you're quite able to post your opinion.

...because anything can be considered 'offensive' by a moderator and then simply removed.
pretty much.

Don't like it? Too bad- this moderator says you've violated the user agreement and that's that.
pretty much.

Doesn't matter that I wasn't racist, sexist or offensive...
ce&p staff disagree.

...destroying liberal arguments is considered an offensive, personal attack.
if that is the case, then how do you still have 645 public posts? obvious conclusion is obvious.

on topic:

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alasdair
 
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