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Originally Posted by DSTCHAOS
When it boils down to it, taking jabs at our leaders isn't far from taking a jab at America. Calling our leaders idiots is calling a representation of America, on foreign soil, an idiot.
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I understand what you're saying, but I don't get the
why of it. Why does it matter who is taking the jabs if it's funny? (If a particular joke/cartoon/ad is simply not funny to you, no matter who takes the jab, that's just a matter of taste.)
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Just like many people in other countries don't find humor in the things being said of their countries and leaders by Americans.
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But you also have to account for the people in other countries who
can laugh at themselves. If something is slanderous and unreasonably vicious, it's not all that funny to me and I would agree with anyone who said the joke maker has taken it too far. I would say the same thing of many political cartoons I see within the States. It's when there's truth behind a jab - and when it's something that is already food for comedians in this country - that it's particularly funny to me.
I was also brought up by a parent who didn't speak English or set foot on American soil until he was 15 years old. He is one of those people who finds humor in accurate representations of leaders in the country he once called home. Perhaps mocking political figures is more common among European countries. I've never lived outside of the States, so I don't know for sure. Anyway, I'm afraid he passed down his humor to me.