“How do you make abortion funny?” That was a key question mulled at a major conservative gathering Friday on how to make social conservatism appealing to young people, after an election where Republicans got trounced in the battle for millennial voters (who are are moving even further and further away from the Christian-right on marriage and other issues).If there's one thing conservatives cannot do, it's humour. And, as we know, the fetus fetishists among them are the most humour-impaired.
Abortion has to be made funny, the thinking goes, because funny sells on social media, and that’s where one goes to court young people. “You can engage with sarcasm, it’s hard with the abortion issue, but you have to,” said Students for Life president Kristan Hawkins at a breakout panel at the Faith and Freedom Coalition Conference in Washington today on how to win millennial voters. “Unfortunately we have to, because this is the generation that we’ve been dealt.”
This is gonna be a gas. And not in the way they intend.
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The problem is that the right is irony- and sarcasm-impaired. These things require a sense of proportion and perspective to become something more than idle cruelty, and if not sympathy, empathy.
Here, this might help get them started.
Oh, wait. They were looking for a different kind of message, I guess... Hmmm... Tell SUZY I'll be right back. I'm sure I can come up with something.
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