The Onion is on fire with this war.
this post was submitted on 17 Oct 2023
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Sadly it's no war, it's a one sided beatdown.
Sadly? I'm not sure either is better than the other tbh.
I mean an actual war would at least force Israel to think twice before trying to genocide Palestinians for the umpteenth time.
It is like Hollywood trying to make the same movie over and over because the first one was a success and copying it is easy.
You're right, both are sad. genocidal bombing of a largely defenseless people (backed by some of the most powerful nations in the world) somehow really gets me down
"...the shocking savagery of a Palestinian corpse that refused to condemn Hamas even when kicked." Absolute gold!
Absolutely fucking savage.
Is this even satire at this point?
This is what satire is supposed to be.
I recall seeing a criticism of the type of satire you see on shows like Saturday Night Live. They tend to prioritize the humor over everything to the point that the social commentary seems diminished. Often, you'll see evil people portrayed as bumbling morons, for example.
Satire is supposed to be social criticism done through humor, so if you don't go for a knockout blow with the criticism, what's the point?
The real question is whether anything less than this is satire.
Fair enough. I just felt this is the actual position of the colonizers, not an exaggeration of their stance.
some of them probably think like this (or close to this) , that's why it's so good.
Satire is supposed to be social criticism done through humor, so if you don't go for a knockout blow with the criticism, what's the point?
But if you forgo the humor then it's just hyperbolic criticism, and I'm struggling to see anything humorous in this article.
if you struggle to see humor in he article maybe your funny bone is broken.
According to reports, such barbarism on the part of Palestinians was on full display across the Gaza Strip, where many men of fighting age could not muster a single world of reproof for Hamas’ actions while they coughed up blood.
how can you read this and not chuckle at the absurdity?
I guess the situation is just too tragic for me to laugh at.
It's a specific type of hyperbolic criticism. Kind of like weaponised sarcasm.
Wow this is a tragedy and I’m not going to lie I was a little weary seeing an Israeli themed Onion but damn if they didn’t hit the nail on the head, recognizing the tragedy while making a fucking point.
Heart breaking.
Did you mean "wary" here or were you just tired of seeing onion articles about Israel?
For what it is worth, I'm weary about seeing anything related to the Middle East.
It's the rare amusing situation where either could be correct. One could be tired of wry, satirical takes on war and feel fatigue on seeing an Onion article about a wartorn country.
Yes! Yes. Wart. Thank you.
Tomato, Tomato. You know what they meant.
There are definitely more or less felicitous ways to talk. Whether you understand what somebody literally means is the bare minimum of communication, not its only metric.
Not saying I don't make similar errors, of course!
They thanked them for the correction, get over it.
The Onion is being anti-semitic!!11!
I legit ate that one. I would not be surprised.
Prominent journal editor fired for endorsing satirical article about Israel-Hamas conflict
Michael Eisen, editor-in-chief of the prominent open access journal eLife and a longtime critic of traditional journals, says he is losing that job for publicly endorsing a satirical article that criticized people dying in Gaza for not condemning the recent attacks on Israel by the Palestinian group Hamas.
“I have been informed that I am being replaced as the Editor in Chief of @eLife for retweeting a @TheOnion piece that calls out indifference to the lives of Palestinian civilians,” Eisen tweeted today. Multiple editors at eLife have already resigned to protest his dismissal.
The furor began on 13 October when Eisen, a geneticist at the University of California, Berkeley, praised one of The Onion’s fake news stories on X, formerly Twitter. The story bore the headline “Dying Gazans Criticized For Not Using Last Words To Condemn Hamas.” Eisen said “The Onion speaks with more courage, insight and moral clarity than the leaders of every academic institution put together. I wish there were a @TheOnion university.”
Criticism of Eisen, who is Jewish, immediately erupted, but the scientist, who is known for being provocative, did not retreat. A day later, he tweeted, “Every sane person on Earth is horrified and traumatized by what Hamas did and wants it to never happen again. All the more so as a Jew with Israeli family. But I am also horrified by the collective punishment already being meted out on Gazans, and the worse that is about to come. …The Onion is not making light of the situation. And nor am I. These articles are using satire to make a deadly serious point about this horrific tragedy.”