They turned boomer and make jokes about wokeness now, so who cares.

I haven’t seen that… linky?

www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6YF-nxc7XI

Like, who is that even mocking? People who don’t want to be racist?

That’s your example?!? Okay.

White women and people trying not to be racist… They’re ruining society right? Har har har \s

The video isn’t making fun of anti-racism.

It’s making fun of virtue signaling by doing something unrelated that’s difficult for yourself, annoying to others and doesn’t help anyone.

no, it isn't. It is 100% intending to suggest that anyone saying anything about racism is just virtue signaling. That is what comedic caricatures are for. They mock behavior by exaggeration and over simplification in order to discredit a viewpoint or people.

Nope. You’re, as usual, 100% wrong.

You’re ascribing intent that is not at all evident in the video.

It’s a video of a silly person doing something more silly than most real people ever would, in order to promote how virtuous she is, which isn’t helping anyone. That’s all it is. That’s the caricature.

There’s no part of it that suggests that all mention of racism is virtue signaling. That’s YOUR thought. Whether or not you agree with it, that originated with YOU, not the video.

Whilst I do agree that The Onion often takes something and runs with it to create an extreme situation hoping to bump into humour…

…they’re still making choices about what aspects to run with. They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative and made them run away with being I don’t know, so unpolitically correct that they become politically correct again. I don’t know, that’s just off the top of my head, but the point is they are choosing who they mock.

…and they used to choose more substantial issues.

They could have just as easily taken a Ben Shapiro type conservative

Nope, you can’t take something that’s already exaggerated past the point of self-parody and then parody it.

they’re still making choices about what aspects to run with.

Which in this case is unhelpful virtue signaling taking attention away from honest anti-racism that’s actually about helping people.

Nope, you can’t take something that’s already exaggerated past the point of self-parody and then parody it.

Why?

And what exactly is past self-parody? What comes after that? (Besides ‘plaid’.)

Because you can’t exaggerate something to make it ridiculous when it’s already so ridiculous.

Bad faith communicators like him already take their outrageous rhetoric and false conclusions farther than any funny parody would, effectively making them impossible to humorously satirize.