Reply #35: okey doke... [View All]

[npincus]

I'll reprint my earlier post on a related thread which expressed my point of view on this topic, then I'll leave it alone because I respect people's rights to their own point of view (though I may occassionally call opposing points of view "horseshit"- tee hee):

yes, I'm surprised to see hostility toward this new animation at DU... cutting edge satire is bound to push the limits of taste... but you gotta love free speech and freedom of expression.

The homoerotic JK/JE content (to me) mocks the manufactured chuminess of candidates on the campaign trail by taking it to the extreme, and then some. And the Ashcroft bit mocks the administration's efforts to curtail gay freedoms- perhaps they are in denial about their own feelings after all! I heard a JibJab interview on NBC this morning, and they said they got bombarded with requests for McGreevy so they threw that in!

I think if people want to laugh at satire and exaggerations about people they don't like, they also have to be tolerant when the spolight turns on those they empathize with, or themselves. I myself, am Jewish, and JibJab has in their archives an animated character who is Jewish- with very exaggerated steretypical speech, etc. and I couldn't be offended because I laughed at other silly characterizations.

So I say, to those who find the animation offensive- lighten up!