There’s been a recent incident at the University of Colorado where Karson, a writer for the school newspaper, wrote a racist commentary about hatred towards Asian students. In the “satire” the writer talks about kidnapping Asian students at the school and torturing them.
Even if it was meant to be a satire, it was written in poor taste, the should never have been published. What is the point of the article? It doesn’t really read as a satire to me. There was no wit in the article. Usually satires expose logical follies in the exact argument it supposedly tries to defend. The impression Karson’s article gave me is that it’s just an outlet for the author to spew racist comments under the veil of making a satirical commentary. But hey, maybe that’s just me, you can make up your own mind after reading the article.
February 27th, 2008 at 8:38 pm
I cannot believe that shit was published. That was not satire - it was a hate crime.