tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post3289165796990089905..comments2023-07-01T00:33:55.165-07:00Comments on Ben Efsaneyim: The Irony Of Failed SatireBen Efsaneyimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-51594504867499548232014-05-03T23:18:07.521-07:002014-05-03T23:18:07.521-07:00Anonymous
Yes precisely. Colbert's satire fai...Anonymous<br /><br />Yes precisely. Colbert's satire fails because it is fundamentally ignorant of the not so subtle nuances of the American race experience - satire without nuance is not satire. Ben Efsaneyimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-66714798278992167202014-05-02T13:17:45.419-07:002014-05-02T13:17:45.419-07:00Damn, why didn't I realize this sooner. Even t...Damn, why didn't I realize this sooner. Even though I 'got' the satire of Colbert's piece, it still irked me for reasons I didn't understand. Now I know why. Colbert's character is supposed to be lampooning a hypothetical conservative racist, but the problem is that right wing talking heads aren't actually that openly racist towards Asians as they are against Blacks and Hispanics. Anti-Asian racism is perpetrated just as much if not more by the left as the right, including liberal institutions such as Hollywood, as well as the Democratic party itself. Thus, Colbert's satire doesn't achieve the hyperbole it's aiming for, because the use of race to denigrate Asian Americans is much closer to reality than he (or his writers) think it is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-21360407158954782892014-04-25T02:19:41.735-07:002014-04-25T02:19:41.735-07:00Thank you!Thank you!Ben Efsaneyimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-82287895225524623622014-04-25T02:19:13.978-07:002014-04-25T02:19:13.978-07:00Hahaha.Hahaha.Ben Efsaneyimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16001682865274251483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-70527699095132731132014-04-23T21:01:21.411-07:002014-04-23T21:01:21.411-07:00Thank you for this excellent post, you done a good...Thank you for this excellent post, you done a good job of conveying the important ideas behind this whole controversy. There are continually those who accuse us of making mountains out of molehills,... but guess what? If you have an infinite number of molehills because people just can't or won't stop making molehills, what do you get in the end? Apollyonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8566317761793185393.post-10815199179326735412014-04-23T14:30:08.004-07:002014-04-23T14:30:08.004-07:00"Colbert's satire failed simply because h..."Colbert's satire failed simply because his skit seemed to be out of touch with America's tolerance for derogatory representations of Asians"<br /><br />Flawless victory.<br />-Shang Tsung from Mortal Kombat<br />Yun Xunoreply@blogger.com