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That's preparewithdronetech.com There's no time to lose do it now Well, go ahead and add comedy to the list of historic American institutions under attack by the DCP Also known as the Democratic Communist Party as we all know It's been a steadily building movement on the left for several years now with one of the most recent victims being Dave Chappelle In his new stand-up movie on Netflix on that note surprisingly Netflix made the right decision and stood behind Dave Chappelle Actually firing the activists who wanted him censored the right decision to be sure but that doesn't make up for dear white people and cuties So I probably still won't be subscribing to them anytime soon So today we have the far-left magazine the Atlantic who published an interview with a writer from a massively popular New satire site called the Babylon B I'm sure you've all heard of it if you're not familiar with it It's like the onion except for their focus is on the left in Democrats Which is a really important thing to have in this day and age since in the current authoritarian environment Mocking Democrats could be seen as domestic terrorism So it's no surprise that this commubus writer over at the Atlantic Emma Green has a real problem understanding What's funny about mocking Democrats? So as these political posts have started to go viral They have gotten a lot of criticism for pushing satire past the line of making jokes and into Misinformation so with my reporting I spend a lot of time in the evangelical world that the Babylon B inhabits and I wanted to know Directly from them. What do they think they're doing when they're telling these jokes? Yeah, who do they think they are making fun of Democrats like they can't do that in America, right? So I called the editor-in-chief of the Babylon B Kyle Mann. Well, I'm not gonna explain the joke to you Do you want me to explain the joke to you? Yes, is the joke is the humor is this weird thing where? Either you think it's funny or you don't either you see it as a joke or you don't This is just so painful to listen to because this is a person who clearly is not used to being challenged on their beliefs And they really look down on anybody who disagrees with them because in their circles They get patted on the back for having certain points of view that they don't really think through very thoroughly Atlantic writer Emma Green sits down with Kyle Mann the editor-in-chief of the Babylon B to talk about Christianity and common But it's not just people on the left who misinterpret Babylon B articles There are also plenty of people on the right who read these headlines and just think their news Take for example this article that was published in January of 2020 It was shared 3.3 million times according to the numbers that are on the bees website The headline was Democrats call for flags to be flown at half-mast to grieve the death of Soleimani That of course is Qasem Soleimani the Iranian leader who is killed in an American strike Like I want to know what makes this funny I know that's the worst question for somebody to ask to somebody who writes jokes, but like why is that funny? Oh Yeah, why is that funny to make fun of us Democrats? Why is that funny? It's just so pathetic Just let's see where this goes. Well, it's funny because General Soleimani died and then they called for flags to be flown at half-mast to grieve his death get it But that's what I'm saying like what what besides just saying the joke over what makes it funny Well, I'm not gonna explain the joke to you. Do you want me to explain the joke to you? Yes, is the joke is that? General Soleimani died and Democrats were sad, but why is that funny? If you don't know why that's funny, then you're not the audience for the joke Exactly man, this is just painful because it's clear to everybody what the joke is I mean this goes back to when Trump was still president and he took out this terrorist general the media reacted just like you would predict They'd react because Trump did something good so they had to somehow spin it as bad and it manifested with all these so-called news agencies that we know are Democrat state media Describing Soleimani in these sort of soaringly positive statements and using language like quote. He was an austere scholar Actually did a video on this topic Ironically right around this time a couple years ago And it was all about how the media was seemingly taking the side of this terrorist general just because he's enemies with Trump So the enemy of my enemy is my friend So the video has a Halloween theme you should go check it out when you're done with this video The joke is that lefties and Democrats rally behind really bad people when they happen to have the same enemies Even if those enemies are simply fellow Americans who disagree with them and the media and Democrats get away with it But as this fragile little porcelain doll sees it. They're just spreading misinformation using liberal stereotypes. I Think what's tough about this joke is that on the one hand there are conservatives who would read this headline and Not give it a second thought they would think that it's real because it exactly fits all of the stereotypes and cliches That people on the right use about the left all the time You see this is the typical trait that we see on the left where they're just incapable of making fun of themselves Incapable of self-reflection or self-awareness and we know this because satire making fun of the right or Republicans is Way more prevalent in the mainstream media. You're not trying to tell a joke. You're trying to mislead people There's no shared kernel of truth There's nothing that people from different political perspectives could look and say hey I Actually see something a little bit true about the joke that you're trying to tell but Obviously Kyle disagrees The funniest part about that is that it got fact checked Because it was so believable that Democrats would do that and so that's the funniest part to me I don't think the reason that they fact checked it was because it was so plausible. I think it's because it was being shared Millions of times on Facebook millions of times on Facebook This woman has one of those really obnoxious valley girl spoil brat kind of accent I mean, are we to believe that satire against Republicans isn't shared widely across Facebook and Twitter? Of course it does and without fact checks But you can just tell from the annoying inflections in this woman's voice That she's just mad that people are allowed to mock her viewpoints and why was that it was because it was plausible Okay, what if people did believe that was real which I think they gathered evidence that some people thought that was real Do you worry about that that people Regardless of how many times you you know make it clear that you're satire website or whatever That people will read that and be like, oh, this is actually a fact that I saw I'm a boomer You know scrolling through my Facebook feed. I actually think that this is a real thing that Democrats do It says I mean does she worry about this happening on say the onion where they make fun of Republicans regularly or SNL or the Daily Show or Steve Colbert. Of course night This is a completely one-sided worry that she has she's not even Considering that this is a problem on her side, which it's not a problem at all This is a completely manufactured problem to use as justification to censor mockery of her ideas That pose any ethical responsibilities for you guys like I mean not any more so than any other comedian who gets mistaken for being real Does SNL bear responsibility because people still think that Sarah Palin said that she could see Russia from her house You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska and I can see Russia from my house The onions had been shared by politicians who thought it was real Stephen Colbert people always thought was was being serious And you feel like you get slammed for it more because you're writing from a conservative perspective Well, we do you know we've seen this time and again with fact-checkers and stuff that there's a different way in which they fact-check our articles and Accuses us of intentionally muddying the waters of intentionally spreading misinformation Versus the way that they would fact-check other sites in the past where they would say come on This is satire obviously and there's just a totally different tone in the way that they approach us So she says to this Babylon be writer that he feels like he's being treated differently because he's a conservative satire Writer and I just find that hilarious that she would say that she says that he feels that way implying that it's not really true It's just his paranoia But there's a really easy way you can test this as far as she's concerned has she written any articles? having any concern for left-wing satirical news sites and What they say about Republicans and the misinformation that they spread of course not there is she has not written a single article on that subject I want to talk about one of the many drawings in your new book There's one in particular that's at the beginning of chapter 2 which is on race I wonder if you remember that particular Image it has three little stick figures. You remember the one I'm talking about. No, okay, so I'll I'll just describe it to you There's chapter 2 and race is the heading and then there's a little stick figure That's like I don't know peach colored that says bad and then one that's next to it to the right That's gray that says better and then there's one that's next to it to the right That says best and it's black and I wonder like Why do you think that's funny? It's like This is completely mental It's funny because left-wingers liberal media, you know Democrats the woke whatever you want to call them Think there's something wrong with being white I mean anytime somebody puts up and it's an okay to be white sign the media erupts saying how Disgusting and awful that is which is kind of mind-bending because what is wrong with saying? It's okay to be white the reason people put those signs up in the first place is because they feel like They're in an environment where it's not okay to be the skin color that they were born as well. It's because Being peach is not good or being yellow is not good or whatever color that is I'm not looking at the drawing but being gray is better and then being Black being dark colored is best Right, but you're not just talking about that in terms of stick figures, right? Like you're talking about that in terms of how progressives think about a hierarchy of race Right like she's not even arguing against this is what's so crazy about this to me She she literally she knows what he's talking about But she just finds nothing funny about mocking that mocking the idea that we're we claim to be against racism yet We form this racial hierarchy where we're gonna put this group that we've deemed to be this horrible group of people we're gonna put them at the bottom and As you get further away from that color it's better, which is why we have these diversity quotas where it seems like the only The only real standard for diversity is just a lack of white people You can have like a classroom full of black people or a classroom full of Latino people or Asian people That's diverse simply because of who it is You throw white people into that mix and suddenly it's not you know It's lacking diversity, which is why you see like at these multicultural centers at universities They're kicking white people out of them because as they put it at Arizona State University White people don't have culture and so that's what they're being taught and that is what this babble humby rider is mocking That's the joke. So why why is that funny? Well, I'm not I'm not sitting here with a book and I'm not gonna sit here and deconstruct and explain every joke to you I think what you're doing is you're pulling out these like Singular jokes in the midst of a book that is written in this voice that says hey Here's a guide to being woke and here's how you get there and there's one joke that does that in the middle of a chapter on race and The hope is that as you're sitting there reading it We're writing in this voice and we're taking this ridiculous position in order to mock something Right a guy who I think really popularized this tactic was Rush Limbaugh Who would always saying that he was trying to demonstrate absurdity by being absurd you take this completely absurd position and An attempt to get the other people who are taking these absurd positions to get them to see how absurd it is But instead of that it's like they're just incapable of that sort of self-reflection So instead of that they just say that you're spreading misinformation all your she you know She tries to make it seem like this drawing that he had us was super nefarious when in reality. She's removing the context He's explaining that now But you know instead of just doing some self-reflecting instead of that she's casting this guy as some sort of a monster and trying to justify Are trying to make some sort of an argument that what he's doing is somehow wrong and should be stopped If you really don't get the joke, I don't I can't help you Like that's what I'm wondering is whether you think that Spirit on the left that you're trying to capture with that cartoon Do you think that that mentality is actually true to liberal or progressive subcultures in America? Yes, absolutely, and obviously that's kind of an extreme example the role of the comedian is to stand there and be the court jester and say hey like what the heck are we doing with all this wokeness and Cultural Marxism and to just stand there and point at it and hold up a mirror to mock it Like it's not supposed to create this nuanced discussion and make these nuanced points Do I think everybody on the left thinks that way? No, but the second you say that in comedy you're not making a joke anymore Now you're just like writing a think piece Why does it seem like explaining comedy to these? Communists as I call them communist activists why is explaining comedy these people like explaining comedy to an Android all right folks That's all I have for this one make sure to check out the full interview and Kyle man's response to it I'll leave a link for that in the description and pin comment, but before you go. Let me know what you think in the comments