Only in America

So, given that we have a white woman claiming to be black leading a NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) chapter [1], comedians afraid to play to college audiences [2], a group dedicated to diversity excluding people based on skin color [3], and the Klu Klux Klan accepting black, Jewish and gay members [4] (meanwhile, I appear to have 1992 on the phone ranting about wanting its election back [5] or something), it's easy to think that satire has given up, gone home, and is curled in a fetal position under the covers in bed, wimpering for a simpler time.

But no, it's not given up—it's just that satire has gotten harder to detect: Black Chicago men start Klu Klux Klan chpater citing a declining culture as a reason [6]. That is simply brilliant (but alas, real life still has a way of trumping satire [7] when it wants to).

[1] http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/06/12/spokane-naacp-president-ethnicity-questions/71110110/

[2] http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Jerry-Seinfeld-comedian-policially-correct-colleges/2015/06/08/id/649425/

[3] http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/users/2015/05/bahar_mustafa_at_goldsmiths_university_ironic_misandry_claims_its_first.html

[4] http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/11/09/ku-klux-klan-rebrand-open_n_6129274.html

[5] http://www.bustle.com/articles/90423-8-reasons-clinton-vs-bush-in-2016-will-be-nothing-like-it-was-back-in-1992

[6] http://www.thenewsnerd.com/local/black-men-start-kkk-chapter/

[7] http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5219349

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