Funny or Die: If You Can’t Take Humor as Dissent, Then a Modern Democracy is Not Fit for You - American Kahani

Funny or Die: If You Can’t Take Humor as Dissent, Then a Modern Democracy is Not Fit for You - American Kahani

I have a perfect cure for a sore throat: cut it.– Alfred Hitchcock There is something terribly wrong with people who hate humor. Why only humor, if you don’t like dark metaphor, a spoof, a verbal caricature, or even an argument, there should be space to accept it and let it pass. It’s not that all such people are absolutely perfect in their social conduct and everyday behavior, including in private spaces. It’s just that alignment with power mak…