Short recap: 'conversation' is prog code for 'lecture'. It's a tactic where one party advances a pre-vetted line of rhetoric, and the other gets to agree or be shamed.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/969679753870499840 …
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What's remarkable here -- aside from how closely Kondabolu's language sticks to the same model Jack used -- is that he admits the 'conversation' isn't about Apu at all. Apu's just a prop, an on-ramp, to the One True Lecture. Missionaries never rest.
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And, of course, anything else than whole-hearted repentance and embrace of the One True Lecture is explicitly framed as an attack! Moreover, the Simpsons' refusal to repent means both that the show is *dead*, and that it deserves to be attacked even harder.pic.twitter.com/undFYyOgfA
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This is what being a comedian means in 2018. Lecturing you on what isn't funny.https://twitter.com/St_Rev/status/983491681470304256 …
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. Banned in Sweden. SubGenius, Zhuangist, white-hat troll. Defrocked mathematician. Brain problems.