Seen any good satire lately?

[Loppan Torkel]

A well-known, Swedish comic-strip was published in one of the leading newspapers (owned by Bonniers, Bonnier of Jewish-Danish-German heritage) a few days ago on the web (published before in the summer in the newspaper). It was, like in the newspaper withdrawn shortly after being published.

http://www.aftonbladet.se/kultur/article8061178.ab - In Swedish

Roughly translated:
Rocky:
- At least I work well when I'm unhappily in love and miserable... I'm starting to suspect it's the Jews at Bonniers who're behind that all the girls I fall for are mean, just to increase my productivity and their cash-flow!
- It's just a theory... I could be wrong... I'm just throwing it out, as a foundation for an important debate...
- I'm lifting the question...
- It could be a coincidence...
Other guy:
- It could be your own fault...
Rocky:
- It could be my own fault, but it's leaning towards that it's the Jews...

So, this strip was pulled for being antisemitic. It was later explained that it could be interpreted as antisemitic.


It's a good comic, and this strip was good (better if you're familiar with it probably). I can see that some people might be upset by this, but if they don't get it, they don't appreciate the satire. Is it possible to do good satire without risking misinterpretation?

 

[Mise]

Well I can understand why people get offended by it, but that's kinda the point of satire, isn't it? That it gets misinterpreted... It wouldn't be good satire if it wasn't easily misinterpreted.

 

[Lillefix]

Well I can understand why people get offended by it,

I can't. How on God's green earth can anyone interpret that as being antisemitic?

 

[Cheetah]

If Rocky always was a reasonable, levelheaded and calm character throughout the comic, and suddenly seriously started to blame Jews for something, it could easily be seen as antisemitic anti-Jewish (Semitic is a language-family!!!).

Knowing that the Rocky character seem to raging against everything and everyone from time to time, there is no reason whatsoever to claim this to be anti-Jewish.

This is an idiot of an editor who does self-censorship because he fears he may insult someone by having an original thought.

Just like the idiots who wants to edit out smoking from classic movies, or refusing to title Pippi Longstocking's dad as Negroking, or baning traditional childrens' songs because of a line mentioning Hottentots.

 

[Mise]

Well, taking it out of context, he blamed the Jews for manipulating him into working harder. And anyway it's hard to say something that someone doesn't find offensive. Whether you should care about it is another (commercial) matter.

 

[Loppan Torkel]

It's kind of strange. Satire was a way to be able to publish things that otherwise would be censored. Now we're so liberal and tolerant in Sweden that even the satire gets censored...

 

[Perfection]

Does Jackass 3D count?