Stand-up comic Richard Herring provides a thought-provoking insight in today’s Guardian regarding the funny side of fascism. In a rationale of his show 'Hitler Moustache', in which he ponders the potentially offensive issue of whether racists have a point, Herring argues that “there is no harm in exploring the truth about racism when all moral, scientific, social, historical and genetic evidence demonstrates it to be groundless and ridiculous. And funny.”
No argument from us. Although it should be said that a brief scan of the readers’ comments on the EP website can be just as entertaining in serving the same purpose and you don’t have to buy a ticket either.
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I am not convinced that you can tackle racism just by laughing at its various manifestations. The Nazis were lampooned but they made their way to power within 20 years and we still do not seem to to have learned any lessons. Yes, Griffin should be ridiculed along with his ideas but he should also be challenged and confronted. The people who go to Richard Herring's show are not the audiences that need to be persuaded, it is the people who voted BNP at the European elections. I think we can assume that they did not act from just a sense of humour.
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