{"id":4800,"date":"2020-06-11T21:49:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-12T00:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/?p=4800"},"modified":"2020-06-12T11:46:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-12T14:46:07","slug":"why-are-they-putting-jokes-in-the-same-basket-as-lynching","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/2020\/06\/11\/why-are-they-putting-jokes-in-the-same-basket-as-lynching\/","title":{"rendered":"Why are they putting jokes in the same basket as lynching?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter is-resized\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NoneSense.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4803\" width=\"133\" height=\"133\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NoneSense.jpg 225w, https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/NoneSense-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 133px) 85vw, 133px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Why are these Hollywood stars self-flagellating like that, even if they may be well-meaning?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Why the dramatic virtue signalling? What is its educational purpose?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p> Plus, since when lynching or torture is equivalent to a joke?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Perhaps they should focus on their professional career only&#8230; They are MUCH more talented with it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Most importantly, this would help improve the society through movies to educate people about respect, tolerance, and peace in life. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can perhaps show us some productions about themes like humanity, unity, respect, and love. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They can also complete projects to simply entertain people in a pandemic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Artistic entertainment makes everyone relax, forgetting about &#8220;systemic racism&#8221;, the coronavirus, and economic hardship. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Entertainment makes people dream of a better world, with beautiful values, human encounters, touch, travels, normalcy, etc.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As artists, they are well suited to know that arts can help inspire and lift people up. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"&#039;I take responsibility&#039;\" width=\"840\" height=\"630\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JjDebAl8Dgc?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why are these Hollywood stars self-flagellating like that, even if they may be well-meaning? Why the dramatic virtue signalling? What is its educational purpose? Plus, since when lynching or torture is equivalent to a joke? [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4800"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4814,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4800\/revisions\/4814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bambisafkar.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}