{"id":14367,"date":"2011-10-26T03:23:12","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14367"},"modified":"2011-10-26T03:23:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T10:23:12","slug":"the-daily-show-on-occupy-wall-street","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=14367","title":{"rendered":"The Daily Show on Occupy Wall Street"},"content":{"rendered":"

This five-minute John Oliver piece really annoyed the hell out of me, until I watched it to the end. It’s basically a smug “hey look, these people use unfamiliar hand gestures and some of them have facial tattoos, ha ha ha” piece.<\/p>\n

The badness of the piece seemingly craters at the end, when Oliver decides to talk to “normal people” in contrast to the weirdos — and all the “normal people” are white and seem middle or upper class.<\/p>\n

But at the end, it turns out that unlike the weirdos, the “normal people” are pretty useless, because they’re unwilling to work to create change. And I think that the extremely narrow band of people considered “normal people” may be a satire of how racist and classist the media’s conception of normality is (although if so, I suspect this aspect went over many viewers’ heads).<\/p>\n

Rather than being a clueless “look at all these stupid weirdos” piece, I think this piece is actually making fun of, and subverting, the “stupid weirdos” critique.<\/p>\n

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