I was thinking of writing a review of Get Out, which I finally saw last night, from the perspective of Fox News or the Daily Stormer. Something along the lines of "young black man seduces white girl, murders her entire family while visiting their beautiful home in the country after girlfriend's mom cures him of smoking with professional hypnosis." But I'm pretty sure Poe's law would apply. Even though it is April Fool's Day, even though this blog is clearly liberal and not racist, and even though my readers can use critical thinking to get the joke it is probably not worth the risk. I don't do satire normally. The way that the internet can grab hold of something and run it through the de-ironyizer with self-righteous outrage afterburner frankly scares the hell out of me.
After the follies of watching right-wing media fall all over itself to claim the-still-unseen Mueller report completely exonerates #doughfacedonny, I thought it might be fun to parody a movie review in a way that could show how easily professional bad faith actors can spin anything to fit their agenda.
Good grief, I've never had a post go viral but I can only imagine what would happen if I did write something like that and it escaped the lab? Odds are, no one would see it. Even if someone did, where could they share it that would make a difference? "Some anonymous blogger with next to no followers wrote something outrageous to get attention, don't give it to them!" Or it could be "they have no followers or institutional backing, get them!"
Oh nevermind, I have never been a fan of April Fool's anyway.
But Get Out was really good and I'm looking forward to seeing Us.
