![]() And I wasn't doing this with intangible ideas but with actual real human people. Because I went to that rally not to genuinely test my hypothesis, but to prove it. And I made a lot of other videos in those years that I believe used satire intelligently. It can be a really useful tool to bring more people into a conversation and speak truth to power in an accessible way. Satire clearly has an important place in political discourse. But was it fair to go there in search of soundbites to prove a point I had already settled on making without getting to know them as three dimensional people? In retrospect I think maybe not. ![]() Now did I and do I profoundly disagree with their choice in 2016 candidate? Absolutely. But I was so determined to make this point that I traveled with a crew to a Trump rally in central Pennsylvania a few weeks before the 2016 election to film a field piece called The Burden of PC Culture, where I would interview Trump supporters about why they didn't like political correctness. Now of course this take isn't revolutionary now, and it wasn't revolutionary then. So, as the 2016 presidential campaign was in full swing, I wanted to comment on the hot button topic of political correctness, specifically my take that those against PC culture were only against it because they wanted to freely disrespect marginalized groups. Now every so often I was given the opportunity to go out into the world and film a field piece where I could interview real humans, rather than simply comedically commenting on intangible ideas in the studio. Some of them have been the catalyst for comments discussed on this podcast. And in my time there, I made a lot of videos that satirically talked about social issues. In this conversation I'm the one owning up to something I've done on the internet that I'm not proud of.Ī few years ago I was working for a digital television network. ![]() And welcome back to Conversations with People Who Hate Me, the show where I use negative online interactions as a starting point for offline conversations. That is what made me no longer ever want to do anything like that again.ĭylan : Hey.
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