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[lollardfish]

Can anyone more knowledgeable than I point out any examples of the Vilification Tennis show doing productive social satire - that is, making fun of something in order to demonstrate its impropriety or nonsensical nature?

I'm seeing excuses that I shouldn't be offended at their upcoming show because it's productive social satire.

I think it's just an excuse and the show isn't about satire, it's about getting laughs by being as mean as possible. They are really good at it. They get a lot of laughs. I think they're kidding themselves about the satire, but I'm not that familiar with their shows.

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[zarathud23.livejournal.com]

In The Adventures of Huckelberry Finn, Mark Twain uses the word "nigger" over 200 times. Now, at the time of the writing of this book, it was a socially acceptable term. It was used often. I believe that he was trying to tell us something. By using it over and over and over again, he was trying to tell us that it was NOT correct to use that word. I don't think most people believe that Mr. Twain was a racist.

I'm not saying that what we do is try to make people socially aware. I'm simply pointing out the fact, at different times in history, a word can be a black mark, or can be accepted by society.