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I don’t know if I’m exaggerating or not when I say that the left wants to make humor illegal. That’s sad in and of itself but if humor were to suddenly get wiped off the planet, no one would benefit from it more than a party whose ridiculous nature is exposed through satire and absurdist exaggeration.
The truth is that the left doesn’t seem to understand humor and can’t utilize it quite like their ideological opponents can. There’s a political danger there. The thing that makes the devil the angriest is when he’s laughed at, after all.
But I also can’t help but think there’s a sort of envy brewing beneath the surface.
When you’re living in self-inflicted abject misery, you’re probably going to get pretty furious at everyone else having such a good time. Like the Grinch looking down spitefully at the celebratory Whos, you’d want to ruin their good time just to make everyone else as miserable as you.
But this failure to understand and utilize humor is their own fault. They have to take everything so seriously because making light of things detracts from the dire situation they’re using to scare or guilt you into compliance. Over the course of time, their figurative funny bone seems to have diminished to the point where they can’t see humor when it’s right in front of them.
A perfect example comes in the form of the left’s attack on Texas State Representative Nate Schatzline, a Republican from the Fort Worth area. Schatzline is a liberty-minded Christian who wants to protect Texas children from the machinations of the left. This includes the attempt to normalize sexualization and gender identity, and the left’s penchant for putting on “family-friendly” drag shows.
Naturally, the left does what it always does with Christian Republicans, and it began digging into his background and history to see if they couldn’t find anything that makes him look like a hypocrite. Lo and behold, they discovered that at one point, Schatzline put on a skit in high school where he was wearing a dress.
Got him! The hypocrite dressed in drag!
Leftists continue to struggle with the concept of humor and how it works. https://t.co/UC2lbtmaVK
— Brandon Morse (@TheBrandonMorse) March 1, 2023
Except it’s pretty clear that this was just a comedic skit being done by Schatzline and his friends when they were kids. There’s clearly not really anything sexual to it. He’s being chased by a friend with a giant inflatable hammer and linking arms with a gorilla. One of his friends is dressed as a giant baby. It’s all just kind of silly.
What Schatzline isn’t doing is flashing his underwear, twerking, or doing anything overtly sexual. You’ll also notice he’s not doing it in the vicinity of, or toward, small children.
Schatzline isn’t being a hypocrite, and the left would know that if they understood what humor is and how it works.
I imagine the leftists currently attacking him and trying to call him out watch any given “Monty Python” sketch where they dress in women’s clothing and assume the comedy troop is giving a full-throated endorsement of transgenderism and everything it stands for. I mean, they’re wearing women’s clothing; this has to mean they’re all about dancing like strippers in front of kids, right?
But even if Schatzline was all for drag shows back in the day, dredging up something he did back when he was in high school makes the assertion that he’s a hypocrite ridiculous in and of itself. No one is the same person they were back when they were kids.
All the left has done is prove a couple of things. For one, it can’t fully grasp the concept of humor and how satirical and silly acts aren’t actually done with seriousness in mind. Secondly, it proves that Schatzline does actually have a sense of humor–and it only makes people respect and like him more.
Solid work, leftists.
