Re: The BiBiC uses its favourite comedy show Have I got News for You to openly repeat this crock of lies Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on April 20, 2019, 7:48 am, in reply to "The BiBiC uses its favourite comedy show Have I got News for You to openly repeat this crock of lies"
My foreign academic friends really like the British sense of humour, but they do worry a bit and wonder if the British are ever serious about anything? Is everything, potentially, funny? It seems to me that humour is used as a kind of pressure valve in many situations. What's happening to Assange is so horrible that looking at it honestly would make people feel extremely uncomfortable and indicate nasty truths about the nature of power in society; so rather than do this, face reality in all its brutality and injustice. These middle-class media types choose not to do this and instead reach for the comfort blanket of 'humour.' So Assange is locked in the stocks in the town square, a poor, bedraggled figure, hanging there, his eyes squinting in the sharp light of day, his legs barely able to support his weight any longer, hovering between conciousness and unconciousness. Pale, drawn and tired. And they walk up to him, spit on him, pour scorn on him and make jokes and laugh about his appearance after weeks in the dark, underground dungeon. What kind of people are they, that they can bring themselves to utter these ghastly words? How come none of them feel shame?
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