Scott Adams Tweet About Khans Raises WTF Objections

Here it is. If you scroll down a bit, you can see some peers questioning the kind of humor that impugns someone having gone public about the death of their child, all without making much of a point beyond the meanness of that particular criticism.

I think everything's on the table when it comes to humor, but it helps to actually be funny and if you look like an asshole, people are going to call you an asshole. American conservatism has an element of humor built into it, and even the initial primary victories by Trump and the related television performance were greeted with laughter by a lot of people that don't find any of this stuff humorous now.

That kind of humor has a really narrow band of effectiveness, too, as it often calls for shocking cruelty aimed at people that are in most cases not elites, and not powerful. The few times that approach works, it's usually attached to a larger truth about something that's hard to get at any other way. This one didn't work at all, and in most cases these day, it's just the cruelty and the rage that shines through. That's one reason why there are very few effective conservative editorial cartoonists. And yet because we are frequently a cruel people and many citizens are enraged, those conservative cartoonists that manage to settle in have fans.
 
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