It's maybe more irony than anything else.

Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity.

I have no race prejudice. I think I have no color prejudices or caste prejudices nor creed prejudices. Indeed, I know it. I can stand any society. All that I care to know is that a man is a human being -- that is enough for me; he can't be any worse.

Kenney knows two essential truths about melodrama: First that it is most powerful when combined with irony and understatement; and second that it is a salient feature of modern life.

The ultimate irony is that I'm becoming part of the establishment,

Crazy things seem normal, normal things seem crazy.