Satire, is satire.
I've said before you can address political points here if you do it in a story. People have done so before. Satires of left positions are just about as common as satires of the right here. I do not intend to censor STORIES for political content. Comments and blogs enjoy no such protection. This is a long standing policy.
As for attacking political figures in satire, that's got a long tradition in the English-speaking world, too. Politicians have to put up with it and so do their supporters.
In ten years of running this site, I've never removed a STORY for content. I've only removed three stories, editorially. One because it was not posted with author permission and two others because they were such messes stylistically as to be not only unreadable but uneditable and they were messing up the front page.
If it comes to having to censor stories for political reasons, this site is dead and I will move on to doing something else with my life.
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
I hate to say it...
...especially as maths is not my strong point ; but one story removed for content and two for stylistic reasons = three.
See, 'Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition...'
Angharad :)
Angharad
Remembered the third one...
...while I was typing and forgot to go back and change the earlier number. :) I'm not actually sure that one ever got posted, I think that was back when I was doing all the posting and had a submission form on the site that emailed stuff to me. I just never posted that one, as I recall, but if I had had the current system, it would have got removed for being such a mess. Almost no punctuation, capital letters only used for emphasis and not for initial capitals, one long paragraph, misspellings everywhere and grammar so bad even a retirement home wouldn't take it. :)
Hugs,
Erin
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
= Give everyone the benefit of the doubt because certainty is a fragile thing that can be shattered by one overlooked fact.
Oh come on now....
....what about a retirement home? Jeez!
She was born for all the wrong reasons but grew up for all the right ones.
Possa Dio riccamente vi benedica, tutto il mio amore, Andrea
Love, Andrea Lena
Um, Ang, your math is off ]
I quote Erin,
>>
I've only removed two stories, editorially. One because it was not posted with author permission and three others because they were such messes stylistically as to be not only unreadable but uneditable and they were messing up the front page.
>>
One plus three is four.
Oooooh higher math.
Four in how many years now, Erin, is a very small number. Either us writers -- I include myself in that very loose definition -- are restrained in what we post or your just a nice softey.
Hey I'm an independent voter and I can appreciate parodies of both the left and right. I ebven voted for some of them.
To be fair, writers, humor is humor, politics is poilitics, please note the difference and be responcible. Don't give Erin uneeded headaches. She's no shrinking violet but has her limis.
John in Wauwatosa
P.S. I see Erin fixed it, darn! -- snicker --
John in Wauwatosa
Easy enough
When it popped up this morning I read the keywords/tags and the teaser, and knew right away it was something I wasn't interested in. Simple enough to figure out, If I can do it, I would expect most everybody on here to be able to do the same.
Don't screw up like I did three years ago, and almost run a damn good author off. I don't know who Elgupo is or what else he/she may have written, but I hope this doesn't poison the well.
Karen J.
"Being a girl is wonderful and to torture someone into that would be like the exact opposite of what it's like. I don’t know how anyone could act that way." College Girl - poetheather
“When a clown moves into a palace, he doesn’t become a king. The palace becomes a circus.” - Turkish Proverb
Us and Them
Nothing spells freedom of speech like political satire. I enjoy good satire even from points of view I disagree with.
I forget which university it was, where a group of conservative students had a little unnoficial campus newspaper,
where they ran a parodic article lampooning the LGBT movement. They were crucified. And I was far more mortified
by this censorship than the content of their satire, which dared to question the quest for diversity in a harshly humorous way.
The satire didn't reflect the truth as I see it, it attacked my core beliefs, but it was constitutionally protected free speech.
Nowhere in that sacred document does it say you are only free to agree with Laika Pupkino, or only nice speech is protected...
Before today, the last piece of outright partisan satire posted here was Jennifer Sue's HORROR-BAMA.
I didn't agree with that one either (attacking my man Barack!), but it was pretty funny. When I criticised it
it wasn't to damn the author as a fascist monster but to point out where I felt it fell down as satire,
where it could have been even more outrageous...
Since I have dabbled in political satire of this sort, I figure if you're gonna dish it out you should be able to take it.
When I posted my savagely anti-GW Bush story IN THE NIXON BATHROOM at Fictionmania ( http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/tv/InTheNixonBathroom.txt )
under my alternate pseudonym The Gimp. I concluded it with this:
AN AFTERWORD FOR THE APOPLECTIC:
Yes, I realise there are places in the world where writing a story like this could get me taken away and shot.
So from the bottom of my heart I say: GOD BLESS AMERICA!!! If this story has enraged you, I challenge you to write
an even more scathing anti-Hillary-or-whoever satire. That's what we do in this glorious land of free speech,
instead of just trying to censor each other. (A lot of "p.c." liberals need to bear this in mind as well...)
In the comments section to my story the author Belle Star said she accepted my challenge, and a short while later put Bill & Hillary
in a comical tale called A WHITEHOUSE TEA PARTY ( http://www.fictionmania.tv/stories/tv/AWhiteHouseTeaParty.txt )
To me it was a very satisfying and civil exchange of viewpoints, and if this can take place at Fictionmania
I would hope we could be at least this grown up at BCTS...
~~~hugs, Laika
Well shit, I guess it really CAN happen here..,
.