Ideology trumps all, even unknowingly. From the article: In practice, however, art is always beholden to forces other than simple truth, and even the most ruthless satirists have their sacred cows. Charlie Hebdo, which fired the cartoonist Sine in 2009 for an antisemitic column, certainly did. American cartoons such as South Park and Family Guy joke about the disabled and the terminally ill, and constantly engage in envelope-pushing racist and misogynist humor. But these no holds barred shows never mock, say, 9/11 victims, or soldiers killed in Iraq. American newspapers do not publish pro-ISIS cartoons. The fact is, we self-censor and select the targets of our satire based on our worldviews - and those worldviews are influenced profoundly by being male or female, black or white, American or Iraqi, Muslim or Christian. Our identities and lived experiences have everything to do with the offenses we decide need mocking, and the targets that we select.
Posted on: Sat, 10 Jan 2015 23:10:16 +0000
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