Satire: Pc Hyperbole

With the content in the video Satire: PC, the video basically illustrates the topic of politically correctness through quotidian conversations between two high-school students. One of the students gets shackled by a shock collar from the third student, who performs a supervisor. The supervisor makes the shock collar beep whenever the student discusses something politically incorrectly; for example, the supervisor says “You can’t say ugly. You have to say visually challenging.” (Satire: PC) Utilizing “visually challenging” instead of “ugly” becomes politically correct. In fact, Horatian Satire shows up throughout the video, which proves that the producer would like to criticize political correctness in a gentle, humorous way. Through the use of hyperbole and situational irony, the producer of Satire: PC wants to decline or eliminate the situation of political correctness in the contemporary community due to the
unnecessarity. Essentially, the producer wants to satirize and change one kind of people in the society that digs into tiny, useless, and complicated points instead of useful, general, and succinct solutions in daily discussion, work, occupation, problems and so forth.
Satire: PC’s use of hyperbole emphasizes the futility and tediousness of correcting everything in people’s daily life. Plenty of examples show up in the video. The supervisor in the video accuses the student who says “garbage man” politically incorrect and asks her to use “sanitation engineer”. By using such an official terminology, instead of making people feel better, it can only represent the eeriness and uncomfortableness under any quotidian circumstances. The use of situational irony in the video happens whenever a politically correct term comes out since no audience could think of such a monstrous word to represent a common, terse object. No one would use “chronologically gifted” to express “old” in age. Satire: PC wisely uses hyperbole and situational irony in the satire video to illustrate the
theme.
In a nutshell, the video successfully explains how unnecessary the situation of political correctness exists in the current society by using satire techniques, such as hyperbole and situational irony, and listing multiple instances. The producer would actually like to reduce the phenomena of political correctness. I have learned that people should use suitable words in any specific situation, which can run the world harmoniously, efficiently, and comfortably.