All artists teach their audience how to view them, by the way they tell jokes, their style, the level of absurdity.
What makes Hasan Minhaj such a troubling example is that his style, onstage and often off in interviews, suggested we should believe him.
Lying in comedy isn’t necessarily wrong.
The problem with only considering the standard of emotional truth is that it can blind you to the impact on the actual world outside your emotions.
You could say that the emotional truth behind the Patriot Act was that the terrorism of Sept. 11 required extreme tactics to feel safe, but that doesn’t make the legislation right.
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Patriot