Posted on 10/23/2021 6:34:02 AM PDT by NOBO2012
There is an Atlantic article this month that chronicles author Emma Green’s interview with Kyle Mann, the managing editor of the Babylon Bee. The title, The Christians Who Mock Wokeness for a Living, explains to Ms. Green’s audience what the article is intended to do: chastise America’s new newspaper of record for being rather un-Christian. What it actually does is prove beyond the shadow of a doubt that the left has absolutely no sense of humor…
“Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.” – Martin Luther King
…at least when the joke is on them. This excerpt is quite self explanatory, although the author repeatedly demands an explanation.
Green: You guys wrote an article in January 2020 that was shared roughly 3 million times, claiming that Democrats called for the American flag to be flown at half-staff when the Iranian general Qasem Soleimani was killed in an American strike. What makes this funny? I know that’s the worst question to ask somebody who writes jokes.
Mann: It’s funny because General Soleimani died and then they called for flags to be flown at half-mast. Get it?
Green: But that’s what I’m saying. Besides just saying the joke again, what makes it funny?
Mann: Do you want me to explain the joke to you? Because the joke is that General Soleimani died and Democrats were sad.
If you don’t know why that’s funny, then you’re not the audience for the joke. The funniest part is that it got fact-checked because it was so believable that Democrats would do that. That’s a real honor.
Green: …But I want to ask about the fact-checking part. I don’t think the reason Snopes fact-checked it was because it was so plausible. I think it’s because it was being shared millions of times. What if people did believe it was real? Do you worry about that, regardless of how many times you make it clear that you’re a satire publication?…Does that impose any ethical responsibility on you?
Mann’s answer is my favorite part of the entire piece:
Mann: Not any more than any other comedian whose joke gets mistaken for reality. Does SNL bear responsibility because people still think Sarah Palin said she could see Russia from her house?
And because it is Caturday, I add this bonus feature direct from the satanic Babylon Bee itself: Is Your Cat Actually Satan? 9 Things To Look For.
Posted from: MOTUS A.D.
That’s really lame and stupid 🤪 just like the libtards at the Atlantic
Before I saw MOTUS AD, I thought this was also the Bee.
Satiric ,LOL
The Atlantic is a crap paper.
The Babylon Bee is occasionally funny but they’re not that great.
Everyone knows the Left has no sense of humor.
They guard the gates of hell. Errbody know dat.
What does a dyslexic devil worshiper say in December?
I serve Santa.
Racism=white supremacy, including non-whites if conservative in morals.
Climate Change
No matter how charitable, virtuous and beneficial something is.
With the goal being that as the liberal elite, possessed by superior intellect and vision, then they should run the world, as proxy servants of the devil, thus supporting the murder of the innocents, and sexual union of same-sex persons. Etc.
Not nearly as funny and great as you, Scarlett.
Well, for a moment there I thought this might be another spoof article BY the Babylon Bee.
The peeps at Babylon Bee are brilliant - now they have liberals believing in the Debel (a/k/a the Devil)
I think the Bee is hilarious. The funny is all in the headlines, though. The actual articles don’t — and can’t == measure up.
Captures perfectly the situation society finds itself in.
I wasn’t trying to insult anyone’s taste. I laugh at them sometimes, k?
Green: "You’re describing a market opportunity. I wonder if there’s any part of you that earnestly believes the woke mentality you’re skewering in your book needs to be opposed and made ridiculous?"Mann: "Absolutely. What satire does well is it deconstructs something. It exposes it. It’s shredding something. Wokeness is a very easy target for us—it’s self-parodying. And we believe it is worthy of being mocked."
Green: "Do you feel like your work at The Babylon Bee helps you live out what you see as the image of Jesus in the Bible?"
Mann: "Sure—the Jesus who is flipping over tables and calling the Pharisees a brood of vipers. There’s a long pattern in the Bible of prophets and preachers who mock folly. My hope is that we can do something similar through The Babylon Bee."
"I think what you’re really asking is, “What is Christian about mockery?” There is a place for that in the Bible..."
Green: "But there’s a big difference between prophetic voice and mockery. Isaiah is a pretty humorless dude. Jesus certainly calls out those who are powerful and strong, like in the Sermon on the Mount, but that doesn’t feel the same as taking a swipe at people who are weak and vulnerable."
"Who do you think Jesus would mock? And do you feel like you take on the same targets Jesus does?"
Mann: "Well, for one thing, Isaiah is funny! He mocks sinners who worship idols, everybody from the poor to the rich. But I reject the punch-down, punch-up dichotomy. The main litmus test of comedy is, “Is it funny?” We’re going to continue to make fun of people, no matter if it’s seen as punching up or punching down."
"Would Jesus joke about the things that The Babylon Bee jokes about? Yeah, I think Jesus would make fun of the most powerful man in the world, the president of the United States. I think he would call to repentance the LGBTQ community. I think he’d make fun of major corporations. I think he’d make fun of universities. The real irony right now is that the left controls a ton of our cultural institutions and still thinks they’re oppressed."
"Jesus was here to call sinners to repentance. Jesus wasn’t a socialist, nor was he a Republican."
The Atlantic is Satanic.
They’ve always been evil.
Throughout history there have been a number of groups that couldn't take a joke, would not tolerate criticism or dissent. People like the Nazis, the Stasi, the KGB, the Iranian Mullahs, the Chinese Communist party, etc. They tended to have their detractors imprisoned, tortured, and killed. I guess we're lucky that our 'rats merely call us racist - for now. Of course, some of them have slipped up and called for incarceration and "re-education." So like their ideological brethren they would no-doubt like to take things further, wield more power...
the Bee is pretty damn funny.
Beloved, do not avenge yourselves, but rather give place to wrath; for it is written, “Vengeance is Mine, I will repay,” says the Lord. Rom. 12:19 Mockery, like vengeance, is not off the table, and no one has a corner on mockery like the BB.
This is true.
Ask and you shall receive from The Bee, too...
I ❤ The Bee!
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