<p>I can’t bring myself to quote from this college newspaper “satire” piece.</p>
<p>The title, “Rape Only Hurts if you Fight It” </p>
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<p>Here’s a video from CNN</p>
<p><a href=“http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2007/02/12/feyerick.rape.editorial.cnn[/url]”>http://www.cnn.com/video/player/player.html?url=/video/us/2007/02/12/feyerick.rape.editorial.cnn</a></p>
<p>Hey, I’ve got freedom of speech, but if I say something horrible, hateful, and pro-violent, there is no newspaper in the world that has to publish it (and few which would). There is no “right” to be published.</p>
<p>What is that newspaper thinking??? And what is that college thinking?</p>
<p>That is beyond disturbing.</p>
<p>Yes, I thought that this was in incredibly bad taste. I saw the CNN video earlier and I even agree with the alleged point behind the article (television news sensation has run amok), but I can’t for the life of me figure out how this editorial was supposed to be satiring the news. Some things really just aren’t funny…</p>
<p>(I wouldn’t have understood the point of the article if CNN hadn’t explained it…it just had NOTHING to do with what they said it did).</p>
<p>“Satire” is not making fun of the powerless. The best line in the comments below the article:</p>
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It ain’t Jonathan Swift just because it’s white and [male]</p>
<p>I don’t understand the confusion that seems to exist at these college newspapers about satire…satire might read as offensive, but it has to be clearly directed at its intended target. I mean, clumsy satire might be heavy handed, but there really isn’t that fine of a line between Jonathan Swift or even Jon Stewart and something that just belittles people (like this article). It isn’t satire! It’s just stupid and mean-spirited. (When you’re the only one who thinks that it is funny…it’s not funny)</p>
<p>It’s not satire. It’s not trying to make a point. It’s supposed to be humor. There exists humor that is not satire. This is certainly politically incorrect humor. And when you act politically incorrect, you run the risk of offending someone (by definition). They ran the risk and lost.</p>
<p>DoveofPeace–(cringe) sorry about that. Knee-jerk reaction. I was…ticked.</p>
<p>That’s a really disturbing article. Especially about the ugly girls…</p>
<p>The feeling I got from it was that I was reading his own thoughts opinions about rape, not that he was satirizing somebody else’s! Which was kinda creepy to say the least, haha. I think that’s a combination of bad writing and a malicious attitude. I agree with others when they say some of the greatest satire is the weak making fun of the powerful…not the other way around…and that there was no defining moment in this piece that really turned it upside down to reveal the real target.</p>
<p>It could just be lack of maturity. Kids don’t get sarcasm until they’re what, 12 or something? I think it’s an undeveloped part of a lot of college kids’ brains, to understand the subtle difference between satire and bigotry, offensive material and offensive material that lacks enough substance to justify being offensive, and what is a true societal/PC problem and what is really them lashing out in defense of their own intrinsically wrong actions.</p>