De av oss som prøver å dele humor på sosiale medier, har etter hvert blitt mer og mer plaget av "faktasjekkere". Dette har etter hvert tatt ganske absurde former. Her er et eksempel på en vits jeg har delt på Facebook:
Slik dukket vitsen opp på Facebook etter hvert:
Trykker man på "See Why", spretter dette bildet opp:
"Finn ut meir" bringer oss videre til en mengde unnskyldninger om hvorfor de gjør dette. Det kan man se selv her.
Det ser ut som at slik "faktasjekking" i stor grad rammer humor som har brodd mot venstre-siden i politikken. Det virker som faktasjekkerne ikke skjønner seg på humor. Men dette er en farlig utvikling, da det i stor grad ødelegger det som kjennetegner humor, satire og kritikk av makthavere. Man kan bare tenke tilbake på Monty Pythons "Life of Brian". Ville slik humor ha sluppet frem på nettet i dag?
Satireorganet "Babylon Bee" har fått stoppet en god del av stoffet sitt på nettet på grunn av "faktasjekking". Her er et intervju om dette:
Satire skal ikke faktasjekkes, den skal leses for det den er, ja kanskje videreutvikles. Her er et eksempel (som noen ganger har blitt kreditert George Carlin og/eller John Cleese) som er muligens er blitt "faktasjekket" flere ganger, men ikke av dagens brutale "faktasjekkere". Det gjelder en kommentar (fra år 2000) om hvilke personer som velges som president i USA:
London, 8th November 2000.
To the citizens of the United States of America,
Following your failure to elect either a half decent candidate or man-monkey as President of the USA to govern yourselves and, by extension, the free world, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume a monarch’s duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, please comply with1 the following acts:
1. Look up “revoke” in a dictionary
2. Learn at least the first 4 lines of “God save the Queen”
3. Start referring to “soccer” as football
4. Declare war on Quebec
Tax collectors from Her Majesty’s Government will be with you shortly to ensure the acquisition of all revenues due (backdated to 1776).
Thank you for your cooperation and…have a nice day!
Uten plagen fra faktasjekkere ble dette raskt utvidet til 10 punkter, slik:
NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE
To all the citizens of the United States of America,
In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today.
Her Britannic Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II, will resume sovereign duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new Prime Minister (The Rt. Hon. Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be circulated next year to determine whether any of you noticed.
To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect:
1. You should look up “revocation” in the Oxford English Dictionary. Then look up “aluminium”. Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up “vocabulary”. Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as “like” and “you know” is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up “interspersed”.
2. There is no such thing as “US English”. We will let Microsoft know on your behalf.
3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn’t that hard.
4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys.
5. You should relearn your original national anthem, “God Save The Queen”, but only after fully carrying out task 1. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through.
6. You should stop playing American “football”. There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American “football” is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays “American” football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American “football”, but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005.
7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 97.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad guys. “Merde” is French for “shit”.
8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 8th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called “Indecisive Day”.
9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean.
10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It’s been driving us crazy.
God Save the Queen!
Dette fortsatte å leve sitt eget liv og ble stadig utviklet videre, noe som ville blitt stoppet brutalt av dagens "faktasjekkere".
John Cleese om kreativitet, talefrihet og wokisme:
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