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DOI: 10.1177/15274764231213816
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racism; humor; mainstreaming; far right; video; critical discourse analysis
This paper critically examines the strategic use of online humor and ridicule to promote and normalize far-right exclusionary discourses. The study focuses on a series of web cartoons produced by Australian far-right populist party and explores how humor is used to soften articulations of exclusionary and supremacist ideas. The findings suggest that the use of exclusionary humor stretches the boundaries of the sayable and potentially makes the content more palatable to non-far-right audiences. It argues that this strategic use of humor forms part of a wider project of far-right discursive mainstreaming.
This paper critically examines the use of online humor and ridicule to promote and normalize far-right exclusionary discourses. Through a critical qualitative study of the Please Explain miniseries, a series of thirty-four short web cartoons produced by Australian far-right populist party, Pauline Hanson's One Nation, we explore the strategic use of humor in the communicative arsenal of the contemporary far-right. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and thematic analysis, we examine how humor is used to soften articulations of exclusionary and supremacist ideas, including racism, misogyny, and queerphobia. Our findings suggest that the frivolity and irony of the online animated genre works to stretch the boundaries of the sayable, potentially making the content more palatable to non-far-right audiences. We argue that the strategic use of exclusionary humor forms part of a wider project of far-right discursive mainstreaming that simultaneously (re)legitimizes everyday expressions of exclusion.
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