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Via comment at an article by the Babylon Bee "punching back" at MSM and Social Media efforts to shut down their satire.
/Snip below, from BB CEO Seth Dillon, arguing against the Facebook requirement that satire should not "punch down":
...we’re not “punching down.” We’re punching back.
Conservatives have been on the ropes in the culture war for a long time. We’re in a defensive posture, fighting back against the top-down tyranny of the Left’s progressive agenda. The jokes we make that they find so objectionable are aimed at popular progressive positions (e.g., the view that biological males who identify as women should be allowed to compete in women’s sports) promoted by politicians, celebrities, Big Tech, and all the largest corporations. If attacking those ideas isn’t punching up — given where they’re coming from and how they’re being advanced — then I don’t know what is. [More here]
