Remember the guy in the hilarious Greta Thunberg Helpline video, Mark Humphries? He also features in a new short film around the Australian travel ban that criminlaises people coming in from India; even Australian nationals. Check out the satire video and the reactions:
So we have a couple of guys – presumably officials who drafted the travel ban. The video underlines the tone deaf nature of the ban. The officials are shown to be preoccupied with trivial issues while being completely unconcerned with things that really matter.
The ban has been widely criticised as being racist and extreme and possibly illegal since it criminalises the country’s own citizens and prevents them from returning home.
The accusation of racism is a valid one too – this sort of a ban would not be imposed on, white Australians fleeing from, say, England.
The fact that it was imposed upon people returning only from India and not the USA or an EU nation even with high rates of infection was seen as offensive.
Though this is a video that is sharply critical of a government policy and its misplaced priorities, the responses were overwhelmingly positive.
People acknowledged the truth highlighted by the video and the fact that this is just independently funny as well.
Apparently cricketers matter far more than regular people – there as well as here.
It seems that governments are far less concerned about human rights violations than they should be --- another phenomenon we've seen frequently.
The tweeple thought that funny as the sketch is, it is alarmingly close to reality.
…And clever.
The video is “revealing the insane idiocy of those in charge,” said another tweet. Clearly comedy is most effective when it underlines reality – apparently the incompetence of those in charge is a global phenomenon.
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