• Maggoty@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think if it had been placed in America it would have been better received. People don’t expect to have a serious conversation about critical reading skills in a meme community. They’re used to one liners and moving on.

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      2 months ago

      But placing it in America ruins the joke. The whole point is that it was absolutely nothing like that.

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        2 months ago

        Well there needs to be a better way to communicate the message then because it got lost in the noise.

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            2 months ago

            Lmao, if A Modest Proposal was published today we would all be breathlessly talking about those Republican cannibals.

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      2 months ago

      You won’t be able to save people who are unable to draw parallels between a hypothetical and a real situation, even when they are given a dozen hints.

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        2 months ago

        Eh. Normally I would agree with you but these hints require a lot of known context.