I can't think of a specific example but I had to vote yes on the poll. If a specific joke hasn't changed my mind then at the very least comedians like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle have widened my perspective on how a black man views America. Their comedy is a much better vehicle for perspective then any lecture, book, essay, article I've ever come across.
I can't think of a specific example but I had to vote yes on the poll. If a specific joke hasn't changed my mind then at the very least comedians like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle have widened my perspective on how a black man views America. Their comedy is a much better vehicle for perspective then any lecture, book, essay, article I've ever come across.
Comedy is a wonderful, and powerful, way to communicate. But I can say that as a satirist, there's writing about ME, and then there's writing about an ISSUE. Two very different aims. When I'm writing about ME, I want to communicate my personal experience to you as a person--I may well impact your beliefs along the way, but primarily I'm interested in getting my experience across. To me, as someone who writes both types of thing, that's very different from my having an opinion about Hank Kissinger, and making a joke about that, and your opinion on him changing because of my joke.
I can't think of a specific example but I had to vote yes on the poll. If a specific joke hasn't changed my mind then at the very least comedians like Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle have widened my perspective on how a black man views America. Their comedy is a much better vehicle for perspective then any lecture, book, essay, article I've ever come across.
True enough, @Engineer.
Comedy is a wonderful, and powerful, way to communicate. But I can say that as a satirist, there's writing about ME, and then there's writing about an ISSUE. Two very different aims. When I'm writing about ME, I want to communicate my personal experience to you as a person--I may well impact your beliefs along the way, but primarily I'm interested in getting my experience across. To me, as someone who writes both types of thing, that's very different from my having an opinion about Hank Kissinger, and making a joke about that, and your opinion on him changing because of my joke.
PS it is part of The American Bystander Style Guide that he should always be referred to as "Hank Kissinger."
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