Homophobic labour

Trollslayer

So replying to a tweet is invading her privacy? Definitely a Friend of Trump.

Jezza99

Don't be silly Cliff, these people hold "right wing views" They probably all have a portrait of Adolf in the living room, for goodness sake, and read the Daily Mail.

Respect? Tolerance of a different viewpoint? Only if they all attend progressive re-education camp...

Toko Black

In your opinion

Humor is subjective dear, especially if it is at the expense of something you strongly support or strongly oppose .... you seem to find a lot of things funny about lefty liberals merely because they are insulting and contain far less whit and imagination than even what I posted (even if I do say so myself)

Jezza99

Margot James being gay is not my opinion, it's just fact.

The thing about humour is that is has to have a basis in truth in order to be funny, so if Margot James was a well known heterosexual evangelical christian (like that well known right winger Timmy Farron), it might have stood up.

But bearing in mind she has nothing to do with evangelical christians, and therefore unlikely to make a statement in support of them, your attempted joke died on it's a***.

Substitute Timmy Farron for Margot James, and it would have worked. But then it wouldn't have fitted your anti- Tory agenda.....

Toko Black

Who's this 'we' ?

I don't care if they are a fringe group or 95% of the population.
You do remember that I am an anti-theist and not just an atheist ?
I have NO respect for the muslim faith or any other faith for that matter.
I do have a respect for the rights of individuals not to be singled out for special treatment be it either negative or positive, since I believe that all individuals should be treated equally under the law regardless of their faith or lack thereof.

I respect individual people for who they are as an individual and their actions, not what demographic they belong to - however, when they are public figures, especially in positions of authority or power and are connected to a particular demographic that has general ideological views that are ideal subjects for satirical comment, then it's fair game.

Cliff

How could I have forgotten

Toko Black

No dear, you missed the point.
finding something funny or not funny is a subjective opinion, regardless of the actual content being factual.
Humor doesn't have to have any basis in truth.

"But bearing in mind she has nothing to do with evangelical christians, and therefore unlikely to make a statement in support of them".

The juxtapostion of diametrically opposing views being switched around has been a staple technique in satire for centuries.
As is the use of the surreal.

You might not like it, you might not get it, but it makes it no less a tool of satire and comedy.
(of course I might actually be crap at making a joke, but that should be based on the actual joke itself rather than an attempt at disqualification on the grounds of not fitting the approved format of what constitutes humour according to specific individuals).

Toko Black

Heh

Jezza99

Well, 2 people so far have pointed out that as an attempted joke, whatever your spurious claims for it's construction, it fell flat on it's a***.

I'd stick to the day job If I were you.

Sweetie

Toko Black

It tickled me and seems to have tickled another poster .... and sparked debate, therefore it has done it's job

I care not if you personally or anyone else find it unfunny, since as I said, humour is subjective, I only object to your inaccurate and ill informed attempt to define what constitutes as 'a joke'