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  • AOCapitulator [they/them, she/her]
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    8 months ago

    Reminder that A Modest Proposal was a work of satire/ sarcasm suggesting that the british simply eat starving irish people as a method of convenient nutrition that enforced social values

    • IzyaKatzmann [he/him]
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      8 months ago

      Huh, I didn't know that. When people miss it's satire, do you know if that's why they call Swift a misanthrope?