After our discussion on the blogg and in class about finding humor in 9/11 or even events dealing with the ‘war on terror’, I found it interesting how we (including myself) reacted to Danny’s animated images with something along the lines of disgust. But when it comes to the “Others”, we seem to laugh freely at making fun of them. Like Danny mentioned in class there is The Family Guy and Southpark who present to the general public humorous cartoons about Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein, and I remembered that Jeff Dunham had come up with a new act involving a terrorist, which I found myself laughing at without a single thought as to whether is was offensive or not.
I just wanted to see what everyone thought about this. Is it right or wrong? Is this another way of getting over 9/11 or does this only feed our ignorance of the “Other”?
Monday, June 9, 2008
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