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| re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article | |
| Posted by: AlanScott 03:33 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article - Michael_Portantiere 01:28 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
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| Michael, if you haven't yet gone to the page that Wayman linked, I recommend going there. I only just went there, and it's pretty awful. I can't speak to what was in his mind when he posted some of the amazingly offensive tweets seen on that page, but it's hard for me to view most of them as satirizing racism. They're not funny, although, to be honest, I don't even get some of them. But I get most of the ideas (if we can call them that) behind most of them. If they were intended as satire of racism, then he would seem to be satirizing racism among gay men, not something I think he would have done, at least not in this way. Perhaps he thought that being outrageously offensive would bring him attention. In any case, I haven't yet gone to the Advocate page. I guess I'll do that later. I am posting here the link that Wayman posted. |
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| re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article | |
| Posted by: Michael_Portantiere 04:06 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article - AlanScott 03:33 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
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| Thanks for posting the link again. I will go to it and check out the other tweets, though I'm sure it's going to be very painful to read them. The whole concept of satirizing racism through comedy is very interesting but, obviously, fraught with danger. To cite one of the most famous examples, ALL IN THE FAMILY seemed to manage it brilliantly, and though of course I'm not sure about this, I think maybe that show would be completely accepted for its clear intent and without any controversy even if it was new today. But I'm sure there are many other examples of past attempts to satirize racism that were not successful at the time and/or wouldn't be viewed as successful today. On a related note, I become very upset when I think of what happened with THE SCOTTSBORO BOYS -- a satire of very different form and tone, if indeed satire is the correct word -- in terms of the reaction to that show in some quarters and, in some cases, by people who hadn't even seen the show. |
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| re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article | |
| Posted by: ryhog 04:38 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
| In reply to: re: Repeating here: Question about Rainbow Rainbow tweets quoted in THE ADVOCATE article - Michael_Portantiere 04:06 pm EDT 08/21/20 | |
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| I don't really want to drill down into this much more (and I think I may have said this before) but satire requires context. There was no context for those horrible old tweets; it was just saying hurtful things to draw attention (and try to make a living). | |
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