Parody and satire

Wintermint

Wintermint

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Satire is a big thing here in the UK. We have a number of TV and radio programmes, including Have I got News for You, The Now Show, The News Quiz and others which I suspect some Americans here would find rather shocking for mainstream TV.

Personally I like the rough and tumble, the 'anything goes' approach to politics and current affairs. It keeps us all on our toes, promotes free speech and makes life interesting. What fun would it be if everyone agreed after all?

Sadly this approach does not appear to be acceptable on this forum from what I can see. If some invisible line is crossed - well you are censored, or so it seems.

I posted a new thread here about Trump's Covfefe tweet - it is all over twitter, Facebook and other social media. People are quite rightly taking the piss out of him because the PRESIDENT of the United States did something to clumsily dumb. Not as dumb as dropping out of the Paris Climate agreement, which he seems to be about to I grant you, but it was an action that no President deserving of your respect, let alone the rest of the world's - most of which laughs at him on the one hand an lives in fear of him causing some catastrophe with the other.

So I posted a thread, poking fun at him. This morning it appears to have been deleted. Censored in other words.

I'll pop back to see if I have missed something and I've been dumb in not finding it, but otherwise I'm outa here.
 

I live in the U.S.A and I thought we had the freedom of speech. At least I believed we did until Trump. No one seemed to get in a Tizzy when Obama was made fun of or George Bush,but Trump seems to be protected from sarcastic remarks about him. I will never understand why people voted for him and I worry about what might happen to our country with him as President.
 
You are not censored, your thread was removed because you posted a political thread in non-political forums. Now you did it again despite my negative rep comment. Read this rule:: https://www.seniorforums.com/showth...itical-Content-Update-All-Members-Please-Read


If you don't know how to read rep comments to find out why your thread disappeared, you can always PM a mod first instead of blaming us publicly, read this rule: https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/5265-No-commenting-on-mod-decisions


BTW, your rude political posts have been complained many times, if you are banned, it's not because of your political views, it's because you are too rude for this forum. Read this: https://www.seniorforums.com/showthread.php/8331-NOTICE-All-Members-Please-Read
 

I came here because it is advertised as a "friendly forum". This is an oasis and it should remain that way. Way too much hate and discontent everywhere you look today, you would be better off adjusting or you may be better off ignoring that this place exists. Either way, peace to you and yours... Too easy to be sucked into discord.
 
One factor here is that tone and inflection are lost through the written format. Something that 'sounds' light hearted and innocent in your head can easily be interpreted as mean, insulting or even threatening to a reader. Our cultures and perspectives are so varied.
One of the first rules of writing or speaking is: know your audience. You can't know the audience here, other than to know it is diverse.
 
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