Jonny Harris visits small towns, then makes a stand-up comedy show. I'll tell you a joke from one, but it may not be funny out of context.
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Replying to @strangeattracto @vgr
He went to Fort McMurray in Northern Alberta shortly after significant parts of town were burned down by a giant wildfire, and people died.
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Here's one of the things he said in his set "I said there was something funny about that though..." 1/2
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"...like there was this 600 000 hectare wildfire, doesn't want to deal with a Fort Mac winter, right?" 2/2
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That's from this videohttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwyQBHF7yQo …
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Replying to @strangeattracto
I think I get it, but I don't think this is what I was asking for. I don't want compassionate humor, but humor attacking idea of compassion
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Replying to @vgr @strangeattracto
There is a weird sense in which compassion has become the governing virtue of the Left but has been bureaucratized into invisibility
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Like, there is a sense of humor that comes through in (say) Buddhist teachings or Gandhi's writings that's missing in SJW discourses for eg
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I think that came from compassion being a "do" instead of a "be" thing. I think we'll rediscover it if we can make fun of it
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The modern Left has in a sense ceremonialized compassion and killed it in the process. Compassion is performed rather than felt.
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In its place, the more ungoverned and immature idea of empathy has grown prominent
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