{"id":626846,"date":"2021-08-09T17:36:57","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=626846"},"modified":"2021-08-09T17:37:02","modified_gmt":"2021-08-09T21:37:02","slug":"opinion-too-conservative-to-be-a-comedy-fan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/opinion-too-conservative-to-be-a-comedy-fan\/","title":{"rendered":"Opinion: Too Conservative To Be A Comedy Fan?"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/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%2Fopinion-too-conservative-to-be-a-comedy-fan%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=626846&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/GettyImages-1159330357-scaled-1.jpg?w=1200&amp;h=800&amp;ixlib=react-9.0.3\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s so ubiquitous, it\u2019s almost part of a pundit\u2019s official job description these days \u2014 bemoaning the increasing national division that has politicized every aspect of our lives, from Thanksgiving dinner to Sunday Night Football, and turned them into cultural battle grounds.<\/p>\n<p>But every once in a while, the stark ugliness of our current atmosphere, in which everything has become an ideological purity test, hits you afresh.<\/p>\n<p>This week, my husband called me over to the couch to show me the Twitter account of up-and-coming Chicago comedian, Andrew Nadeau. His quirky <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndrewNadeau\/status\/1423152302706278403?s=20\">ruminations<\/a> about how 400-year-old vampires are more likely to have the personality of your grandparents (stymied by technology and scandalized by the amount of sex on TV) than of hot high school rebels\u2014provided a pleasant few minutes of giggles.<\/p>\n<p>One <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndrewNadeau\/status\/1423346734563041284?s=20\">tweet<\/a>, in particular, elicited a hearty \u201clol\u201d from us both.<\/p>\n<blockquote readability=\"12\">\n<p><em>me: aaah! a ghost! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>casper: don\u2019t worry, I\u2019m friendly! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>me: oh. so you don\u2019t try to scare and murder me? <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>casper: no! I just live with you and want to hang out and talk all the time! <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>me: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>casper: <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>me: I\u2019ll be honest that actually sounds worse than the murder thing<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Something of an introvert myself, I smiled and shared the post, commenting, \u201cI\u2019ve never felt so seen.\u201d I also gave Nadeau a follow, figuring his witty one-liners would provide a nice breather from the political dialogue that comprises most of my social media interactions.<\/p>\n<p>The next morning, sipping my coffee, I typed Nadeau\u2019s name into the Twitter search bar, anticipating a light laugh before starting my workday. But instead of his busy feed of punchlines, I saw a mostly blank white screen. An announcement in bold, black letters stood in the center:<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201c@TheAndrewNadeau blocked you.\u201d &nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In smaller gray type underneath: \u201cYou are blocked from following @The AndrewNadeau and viewing @TheAndrewNadeau\u2019s Tweets.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It went unspoken, he had also blocked me from being his fan.<\/p>\n<p>It was a small thing \u2014 some regional comic I\u2019d never heard of before didn\u2019t want me laughing at his jokes \u2014 but it hit me like a slap across the face.<\/p>\n<p>I hadn\u2019t replied to any of his posts nor debated anyone in his mentions. I hadn\u2019t disagreed with his vampire observations nor expressed offense at a few posts that mocked the most sacred tenets of my religious faith. I just thought one of his bits was funny. And I shared it with others, thinking they might find it funny too.<\/p>\n<p>I tend to have a rather mild online personality and, to my knowledge, have never been blocked by anyone before. A consummate church lady, I have never posted an offensive term or, I believe, even called anyone a nasty name online. So what was it that made Nadeau decide, even as he\u2019s presumably trying to build the kind of broad following that results in comedy stardom, that some of his fellow countrymen aren\u2019t welcome to appreciate his humor?<\/p>\n<p>A glance at my own Twitter account makes it pretty clear who I am and what I\u2019m about. I\u2019m a mainstream conservative Christian who expresses, fairly politely, the mainstream conservative Christian convictions shared by millions across the United States. I can only conclude that my beliefs in biblical sexual ethics and the free market, in government restraint and the rule of law, made Nadeau feel he must put up a wall to keep me out.<\/p>\n<p>So I wish you luck, Andrew, in your apparent mission to cull an ideologically pure fan base. But please know that every brick like this creates a little more rancor, a little more distrust in the body politic. It makes it a little harder for the center of a common American culture to hold.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><i>The views expressed in this opinion piece are the author\u2019s own and do not necessarily represent those of The Daily Wire.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><i>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a&nbsp;<\/i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><i>member<\/i><\/a><i>.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s so ubiquitous, it\u2019s almost part of a pundit\u2019s official job description these days \u2014 bemoaning the increasing national division that has politicized every aspect of our lives, from Thanksgiving &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1893773,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-626846","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626846","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=626846"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626846\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1893773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626846"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626846"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626846"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}