{"id":1497421,"date":"2022-05-30T19:14:54","date_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:14:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497421"},"modified":"2022-05-30T19:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-30T23:14:58","slug":"musk-torches-gamer-publication-for-trying-to-mock-him-explains-why-wokeism-is-not-funny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/musk-torches-gamer-publication-for-trying-to-mock-him-explains-why-wokeism-is-not-funny\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk Torches Gamer Publication For Trying To Mock Him, Explains Why Wokeism Is Not Funny"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmusk-torches-gamer-publication-for-trying-to-mock-him-explains-why-wokeism-is-not-funny%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1497421&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Elon Musk mocked a gamer publication on Memorial Day for trying troll him after the publication accused him of not giving them proper credit for their content.<\/p>\n<p>The publication, Hard Drive, claimed that Musk had cropped their name off one of their articles and posted it to social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWell, if you make something that looks like a meme &#038; someone (not me) crops off your name, so it goes,\u201d Musk responded. \u201cAlso, this is only a 6\/10 meme, so maybe step down from that high horse! The selfless art of anonymous meme creators is something to be admired.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Musk later deleted the tweet that the publication called him out over.<\/p>\n<p>The publication later posted a link to one of their articles and asked Musk to let them know what he thought of it.<\/p>\n<p>The article was titled, \u201cElon Musk Admits He Wants to Travel to Mars Because No One Hates Him There Yet\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Musk responded, \u201cLess funny than SNL on a bad day. This could make a drunk person sober. Try harder!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe reason you\u2019re not that funny is because you\u2019re woke,\u201d Musk continued. \u201cHumor relies on an intuitive &#038; often awkward truth being recognized by the audience, but wokism is a lie, which is why nobody laughs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The reason you\u2019re not that funny is because you\u2019re woke. <\/p>\n<p>Humor relies on an intuitive &#038; often awkward truth being recognized by the audience, but wokism is a lie, which is why nobody laughs.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Elon Musk (@elonmusk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/elonmusk\/status\/1531337185894465538?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 30, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Musk has repeatedly slammed wokeism for a variety of reasons, including the negative impact that it has had on the world of comedy.<\/p>\n<p>Musk took aim at The Onion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/musk-torches-wokeness-one-of-the-biggest-threats-to-modern-civilization-is-divisive-hateful\">during an interview<\/a> last year for becoming \u201creally politically correct\u201d and for not making fun of \u201canything on the Left.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt used to be much more even-handed, The Onion, and then they just got the woke mind virus to the point where \u2026 it used to be very funny and then it was not that funny,\u201d Musk said. \u201cYou know, SNL, I used to be a huge fan of SNL. \u2026 many, many, many, if not, most of the SNL episodes are kind of a moral lecture on why we\u2019re bad human beings, instead of comedy. So, and again, won\u2019t make fun of anything on the Left, really, like, you know, they\u2019ll beat up on Ted Cruz 17,000 times and you\u2019re like, \u2018OK, we get it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo it\u2019s, it\u2019s just, there\u2019re just a lot of no fly zones with a lot of comedy,\u201d Musk said. \u201cAnd then you realize, it\u2019s like, wait a second, is the comedy getting at an essential truth or trying \u2014 is there a propaganda element? Or is it trying to push you in a particular direction? Or getting to an essential truth that is humorous? And when it stops trying to get to an essential truth that is humorous, then, you know, it\u2019s just not that funny.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk mocked a gamer publication on Memorial Day for trying troll him after the publication accused him of not giving them proper credit for their content. The publication, Hard Drive, claimed that Musk had cropped their name off one of their articles and posted it to social media. \u201cWell, if you make something that &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":102,"featured_media":1497439,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1497421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/102"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1497421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1497421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1497439"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1497421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1497421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1497421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}