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The Onion Staff to Go on Strike Wednesday Barring 11th Hour Deal
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Whilst I do agree that The Onion often takes something and runs with it to create an extreme situation hoping to bump into humour...
....they're still making choices about what aspects to run with. They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative and made them run away with being I don't know, so unpolitically correct that they become politically correct again. I don't know, that's just off the top of my head, but the point is they are choosing who they mock.
...and they used to choose more substantial issues.
Nope, you can't take something that's already exaggerated past the point of self-parody and then parody it.
Which in this case is unhelpful virtue signaling taking attention away from honest anti-racism that's actually about helping people.
Why?
And what exactly is past self-parody? What comes after that? (Besides 'plaid'.)
Because you can't exaggerate something to make it ridiculous when it's already so ridiculous.
Bad faith communicators like him already take their outrageous rhetoric and false conclusions farther than any funny parody would, effectively making them impossible to humorously satirize.
Please do tell us more about how racism is solved and not an issue anyone would genuinely think needs to be addressed.
I never claimed any such thing, nor would I ever. Do you ever say anything that's NOT about a ridiculous strawman you concocted in your mostly empty head?
And note the "already exaggerated past the point of self-parody" their entire point is in fact exactly that anti-racists are nothing but self aggrandizing attention seekers.