Elon Musk: Wokeness Wants to Make Comedy Illegal | Short Clips | PragerU

wokness basically wants to make comedy illegal do we want a humorless society that is simply Rife with condemnation and hate at at its heart wokness is divisive um exclusionary um and hateful it's it's it basically gives mean people a shield to be to be mean and cruel armored in false virtue the world has become too absurd to be sazed the great English writer GK Chesterton said that way back in 1911 long before math was considered racist and biological men were allowed to compete against women in sports one can only imagine what he would say if he were alive today at The Babylon B where we write satire for a living we're feeling chesterton's pain in a big way just look at these headlines that were satirical at the time we wrote them on May 9th 2017 we ran this headline 2 plus 2 equals 4 insists closed-minded bigot that was a joke of course but on August 10th 2020 the Washington examiner published this story math professor claims equation 2 plus 2 equals 4 reeks of white supremacist patriarchy on August 13th 2020 we ran this headline BLM riers awarded Nobel Peace Prize at the time we thought this was obvious satire but on January 29th 2021 this story was published in the guardian black lives matter movement nominated for Nobel Peace Prize on March 25th 2020 we ran this headline pants sales plummet as everyone working from home the very next day this story appeared in Yahoo finance amid Corona virus Walmart says it's seeing increased sales of tops but not bottoms I could go on our satirical headlines are proving to be prophetic with astonishing regularity so what does this mean for humor and satire well for one thing it makes our job much more difficult you might be surprised to hear that the crazier reality is the easier it is to make fun of right actually it's the opposite satire exaggerates the truth to make a point But when reality is this absurd and extreme views and behavior are common place how do you go a Step Beyond it almost anything we publish now ends up being believable and much of it ends up actually coming true as you've just seen this is exactly what Chesterton was talking about it's one of the ways the left is killing satire by turning reality into a parody of itself there's another more intentional and Insidious way the left is killing satire and that's through censorship we published an article a couple of years ago with this over-the-top headline CNN purchases industrial-sized washing machine to spin news before publication Believe It or Not Snopes fact checked this story I mean come on a washing machine to spin the news that's an obvious joke but Snopes fact checked it and rated it false as if we'd written a serious story it used to be that jokes were either funny or not they made you laugh or they didn't but now in the factchecking age we're giving them a Truth rating jokes are no longer funny they're false and false information is dangerous in response to the Snopes fact check Facebook warned us that we'd be demonetized and deplatformed if we continued publishing fake news it should go without saying that there's a big difference between fake news which is meant to deceive and satire which is meant to entertain and inform through mockery humor and irony but the left benefits by blurring this distinction if they can successfully lump Us in with fake news then they can shut us down it's that simple these fact checks which often smear Us by suggesting we're purposefully misleading people are nothing more than a creative conniving way of justifying censorship but why would anyone want to censor satire why is Facebook paying USA Today to write lengthy reputations of our jokes yes they actually do that because humor is ultimately a vehicle for truth delivery and the truth can be offensive think about all the things you're not allowed to say anymore not because they're false but because they make people uncomfortable satire Cuts right through the pretense and political correctness to expose uncomfortable truths and it does so more ruthlessly and effectively than anything else CS Lewis said good philosophy must exist if for no other reason because bad philosophy needs to be answered satire is necessary for the same reason satire ridicules bad ideas and now more than ever bad ideas need to be exposed for what they are before they gain an even bigger foothold on our minds and hearts especially on the minds and hearts of young people and while good philosophy and rational argumentation are indispensable it's often humor that's most effective to quote our friend GK Chesterton once more humor can get in under the door while seriousness is still fumbling at the handle I'm Seth Dylan CEO of The Babylon B for Prager University