The Rise of the Comedy Critic

Seth simons wrote an essay for the new republic a couple of years back. The central thesis was that you could find the origins of the alt right, sort of very racially hostile and authoritarian version of the right. It has it as its roots in a form of co that was very popular in the early two thousands,. colloquially called cringe comedy Leverage horrible things for humor, value, sexism, racism, homophobia, violence, assault. Anybody who likes that kind of humor, much less tells a joke along those lines, must be a pretty bad person. And yet, this is the the essence of dark humor, to laugh your way up the gallows steps to find humor