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So Games Workshop just published a "40k is satire, nazis pls leave" statement. What do you nerds think? (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago) by Animasta@hexbear.net to c/games@hexbear.net

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Here's a link.

Does it fail as satire? Does this kind of thing work as good satire for specific people? Somebody explain.

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[–] Awoo@hexbear.net 1 points 4 years ago* (last edited 4 years ago)

Does it fail as satire? Does this kind of thing work as good satire for specific people?

Satire is useless for anything other than entertainment purposes. It entertains everyone that dislikes the thing being attacked, and it similarly entertains everyone that likes the thing being attacked.

Satire is the production of media that depicts the thing those under satirical attack aspire to be. They always simply coopt it as something they like.

It should be viewed purely as a form of entertainment and not as any form of political use because it basically has none.