We need humor like we need the air we breathe, says editorial cartoonist Patrick Chappatte. In a talk illustrated with highlights from a career spent skewering everything from dictators and ideologues to selfies and social media mobs, Chappatte makes a resounding, often hilarious case for the necessity of satire. "Political cartoons were born with democracy, and they are challenged when freedom is," he says.
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It seems we get too worried about political correctness. Even comedians can’t tell jokes. Is this ridiculous or not?
@Optical Clarity The speaker’s message is not directed to the left specifically, it’s about the “extremists, the dictators, the autocrats and frankly all the ideologues of the world” which means *any* political spectrum.
@Optical Clarity You don’t even have sufficient knowledge of history to know what was happening 40 years ago, but somehow your analysis has any weight behind it? Lmao
@Relaxing Nature Squad So how long have you been able to read minds, and when did your dog tell you to stop raping goats?
@Alex Mac Haven’t heard about the mass shooting at Dayton? Not surprising given the mass media ignored it. And by your definition kristallnacht wasn’t an act of terrorism… how fascist apologist of you.
@Relaxing Nature Squad So how many wars did Mr. Obama get us involved in? What year did he close Guantanamo bay? Libya is so much better off today after he & Hillary destabilized the country. Isn’t Syria just wonderful? Afganistan. Drone strike on civilians across the middle east…
Call me, son, after you served in Iraq & Somalia like I did, & spent the next 30 years building an international business. I’d be willing to bet my dead skin cells are brighter than you.
The world has definitely lost its freedom of speech
I like that the topic of freedom of speech is not a left vs right issue. Both sides can unite on this one. Makes a nice change.
Wrong.
@revspikejonez
No, I have eyes. I can see. Im correct.
And no authoritarian lacky can shut me up or confuse me.
I’d disagree. Satire is super important, but language holds power and when we stop allowing people who weild that power badly and use it to hurt people to continue, it makes the world safer for the rest of us.
We don’t let children bully others, we tell them not to say bad things and put them in time out. It’s the same for adults. And the people who are the most upset by PC culture, are those who are already safe. Who have never been bullied and rejected by language. They don’t understand it and instead of trying to, chalk the world up to snowflakes. But the schoolyard bully also thinks their victims are weak. And as we know, they are often more vulnerable themselves and simply trying to maintain their facade of power.
All the same.
“the world has lost free speech”
I say as I type my comment onto the replies for yet ANOTHER YouTube video about how reactionaries are being censored while broadcasting on every single media platform and social network 24/7
Anything for the Clicks, eh?
‘The media should not be intimidated by Social Media mobs’. True.
The media also should tell the verified truth, which they do not.
Kenneth Slayor expect they do. Not saying bias doesn’t exist in story selection to a degree, as no one can be truly biased, but the information is accurate.
And the media shouldn’t join such social media mobs, or stir them up as they always do.
They’re not intimidated, they’re just desperate for clicks because their income is shrinking.
*Flagged for hatespeach by [insert persecuted group]*
Counter protestors rally to upvote and report [insert group] for violating terms and conditions
Not a single rational person in a persecuted group would flag this video. There is a huge difference between this and hate speech. And I would bet this man condones hate speech and the use of slurs, jokes at the expense of marginalized groups, all while promoting freedom of (respectful) expression.
@Logan Post
You are hereby flagged
Tell this the guy in the bear costume.
Voice of sense. Excellent!
Is the decision of the NYT of terminating their online Spanish edition made because they bow to a corrupt funded Spanish dictatorship advertisement buyer such as Venezuela?
A comment is made on every picture of this debate.
One has to write the whole story to comment. It is better not to comment . Everything is true .
For this Debate I am Speechless.
If you didn’t get the feeling that something is wrong with the world when a satirist is as serious as this guy is, something might be wrong with you.
Lucky already over that phase, that was not a fun time to be bogged down by the world’s darkness.
I mean, I think there’s some merit to using political satirists as the Canary in the coal mine. When they’re under censor, the free press is no longer free or safe.
Artimis Fowl – I never go into the coal mine without one..
Satire is dead, thus “humorists” need to cry wolf and claim they’re “under attack” in order to stay relevant
This is what memes used to be. I wonder if EU still secretly make memes.
I didn’t need to be impressed by this talk. It was just, good.
This is one of those talks that doesn’t initially catch your attention but holds you by the balls before you know it.
Fft
Ramza Beoulves – eh , youre always getting your balls caught up in stuff ..
That was brilliant. Funny at first then very serious on the subject. I really got a sweat cold effect when the tone of the talk radically changed
At first I belched , then I farted.
I felt the seriousness without being swamped by it. I liked that it was easy to follow but impactful enough to give one pause, pause to think critically about censorship and that which it intends to obscure.
I think this brings up a really interesting conversation about business and creator interactions with public outrage when handling challenging topics, but everyone in the comments equating political correctness and ‘leftist SJWs’ to real political authoritarianism is kind of missing the point. When he says “media shouldn’t be influenced by social media mobs” he doesn’t mean “people on the internet shouldn’t be angry about these things”. Valid or not, groups of people who get worked up over sensitive issues are EXERCISING their own free speech, not taking away yours. Your right to say whatever you want also means that someone else has just as much of a right to tell you to shut up. The conversation we should be having is when is it worth the fight to keep talking anyway.
An incredible speech. Well done.
Que Trump Nazis’ Salute after winning, finally silencing his opponents on the podium of his inauguration surround by his most loyal supporters as the crowd, in red maga hats regails in his accomplishments. And a banner saying #NeoDemocratis
I totally agree with this. But, to be fair, satire only seems to be allowed when created for a liberal audience. In 2019, satire directed toward Leftism is considered a hate crime.
Mark Zuckerberg is a TRADER . He and all his cronies should be in JAIL. And Edward Snowden is an American HERO. god bliss this land..