# Gavin McInnes Tries To Be the Next Julius Streicher **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [March 7, 2013, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249 "2013-03-07T01:28:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Derleth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Derleth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Derleth)\ **Post date:** [March 7, 2013, 11:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249/21 "2013-03-07T23:40:37Z")
Simple: If you disagree with it, it’s satire and you’re an idiot for attacking it. If you agree with it, please to buy a subscription and join our merry band. It’s a couple steps stupider than traditional dog-whistle racism and the racism of unstated assumptions. ---
**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249/22 "2013-03-08T07:31:03Z")
If you’re at McGill, why bother walking through a pastoral Chinatown? Six blocks east and three south and you can walk through a _commercial_ Chinatown. ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249/23 "2013-03-08T17:39:36Z")
Satire is supposed to have the bite of wit to it, which explains why modern “conservatives” are so bad at it. There used to be conservative satirists who deserved the name (PJ O’Rourke, for one, although he always had the old conservative problem of making punching down funny, too) but the right wing hasn’t produced even a blatant comedian with anything worth laughing at (well, with, anyway) in a couple of generations. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Second\_Stone](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/bbe5ce/32.png) [@The\_Second\_Stone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Second_Stone)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249/24 "2013-03-08T18:13:18Z")
> [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](#): > > I’m feeling quite fucking stupid now, but I was told of this article by a friend who took it seriously also and actually did a whole critique of it for a school assignment. ☹ Its just enough realistic (unlike Swift’s original Modest Proposal which was transparently a satire) that one can take it seriously. Swift was obvious satire? Does that mean I need to clear my fridge of leftovers? ---
**Author:** ![Beastly\_Rotter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/45deac/32.png) [@Beastly\_Rotter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beastly_Rotter)\ **Post date:** [March 8, 2013, 7:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249/25 "2013-03-08T19:47:18Z")
> [@jayjay](#): > > Satire is supposed to have the bite of wit to it, which explains why modern “conservatives” are so bad at it. There used to be conservative satirists who deserved the name (PJ O’Rourke, for one, although he always had the old conservative problem of making punching down funny, too) but the right wing hasn’t produced even a blatant comedian with anything worth laughing at (well, with, anyway) in a couple of generations. I miss the old P J O’Rourke, before he became a lazy caricature of himself: I never agreed much with his politics, but damn the man could write and he was as funny as hell. His travel writing was exceptional. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/gavin-mcinnes-tries-to-be-the-next-julius-streicher/652249.md?page=1)