When I was in high school, I went to see Monty Python's Life of Brian. I didn't find it funny at the time. I knew people who loved it and I said, "But it wasn't funny", and they explained that they liked it because they kept picturing how elderly religious people would react to it. There was a kid who lived with his grandparents. He told me he decorated his room with posters from the Revolutionary Communist Youth Brigade just to alarm them.
I just read a review of a Dinesh D'Souza "documentary". It has a zero percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes. It argues that Adolf Hitler and Josef Mengele were liberals and that Donald Trump is exactly like Abraham Lincoln. The movie was calculated to outrage people who will never see it, which means it was made only so right-wingers could chuckle over what they imagined Democrats' reaction would be.
The comments section confirmed it. There were long comments from Trump supporters. They didn't defend the movie's content or dispute the review. They just said that the bad review meant it had outraged a liberal and they were going to see it just to sock it to those Democrats.
Well, if that's how they want to spend their money....
D'Souza spoke at the university here a couple of decades ago. He then wrote something that appeared in the local paper. He said that the liberals had violated his right to free speech. No one had tried to stop him from speaking, there were no protests against his appearance, there was no heckling, but his rights were violated because, during the question-and-answer period, some people said they disagreed with him.
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