Satire is a particularly pointed form of social commentary, used for thousands of years to illustrate the hypocrisy, greed, and absurdity of the powerful. It isn’t all as elegant as that written by Aesop and Miguel de Cervantes, or even Stephen Colbert. Some is awkward and clumsy, and some of it is flat-out bad. You can argue, and many have, that the cartoons printed in Charlie Hebdo fall into this category. That is beside the point. Satire is an essential tool for revealing hard truths about our world. It must be protected in all its forms.wired/2015/01/je-suis-charlie/?mbid=social_twitter
Posted on: Wed, 07 Jan 2015 23:01:54 +0000
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