<<But it seems to me, admittedly without statistical evidence, that the humorless scale tips decidedly to the left. >>
My impression is that the most humorless of all are the far left, the PC-left. I guess i'm thinking of white types who would have been Stalinists a generation ago. (I suspect that whatever his faults, and they are myriad, Al Sharpton isn't humorless.)
That far left constituency seems to run a continual scan to decide what they are allowed to laugh at.
I have a feeling that the correspondingly far right laughs, but I have no idea at what it is they laugh at, besides, i suspect, Gallagher. I suspect it would disturb me, but can't be sure.
My impression is that people who call themselves liberals and conservatives are about balanced in humor- ous/less -ness, though thinking different things are funny, often.
Just impressions.... |
