Okay tbf, I forgot about that. I just remember having to read it in school and they literally gave us a warning that it was not actually about eating babies
I liked the argument The Onion had in their amicus brief to the Supreme Court against requiring satire to be labeled as such.
This is not a mere linguistic anecdote. The point is instead that without the capacity to fool someone, parody is functionally useless, deprived of the tools inscribed in its very etymology that allow it, again and again, to perform this rhetorically powerful sleight-of-hand: It adopts a particular form in order to critique it from within. See Farah v. Esquire Magazine, 736 F.3d 528, 536 (D.C. Cir. 2013).
Here’s another example: Assume that you are reading what appears to be a boring economics paper about the Irish overpopulation crisis of the eighteenth century, and yet, strangely enough, it seems to advocate for solving the dilemma by cooking and eating babies. That seems a bit cruel—until you realize that you in fact are reading A Modest Proposal. To be clear, The Onion is not trying to compare itself to Jonathan Swift; its writers are far more talented, and their output will be read long after that hack Swift’s has been lost to the sands of time. Still, The Onion and its writers share with Swift the common goal of replicating a form precisely in order to critique it from within.
That leverage of form—the mimicry of a particular idiom in order to heighten dissonance between form and content—is what generates parody’s rhetorical power. Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 580-81 (1994) (“Parody needs to mimic an original to make its point.”). If parody did not deliver that advantage, then no one would use it. Everyone would simply draft straight, logical, uninspiring legal briefs instead.
To put it another way, when a member of the English aristocracy takes it seriously, it's evidence of the truth that Swift was poking at: that the English were cruel and uncaring towards the Irish.
I'm torn on this. Like, on one hand the Eucharist is the body and blood of one fully adult Jesus, not baby Jesus.
On the other hand, He is the Lamb of God not the "Mutton of God", so perhaps He is restored to being tender and mild through divine mysteries instead of being tough and gamey?
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People misunderstand that letter all the time tbf
I mean, it was only a proposal, a modest one...
That was not the point tho? He was making a point about the politics of the time
The letter's title was Modest Proposal.
Okay tbf, I forgot about that. I just remember having to read it in school and they literally gave us a warning that it was not actually about eating babies
Have you read it? It is actually about that, although it is intended satirically.
That's what the teacher meant, given it's intended as satire, it's not actually proposing it seriously is what he meant.
What did the other students say about it?
I liked the argument The Onion had in their amicus brief to the Supreme Court against requiring satire to be labeled as such.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/22/22-293/242292/20221003125252896_35295545_1-22.10.03%20-%20Novak-Parma%20-%20Onion%20Amicus%20Brief.pdf
To put it another way, when a member of the English aristocracy takes it seriously, it's evidence of the truth that Swift was poking at: that the English were cruel and uncaring towards the Irish.
The infants would only be mild because the English don't season their food
We lost many things in The War. Like meat pies seasoned with literal piles of ground nutmeg
I'm torn on this. Like, on one hand the Eucharist is the body and blood of one fully adult Jesus, not baby Jesus.
On the other hand, He is the Lamb of God not the "Mutton of God", so perhaps He is restored to being tender and mild through divine mysteries instead of being tough and gamey?
I have to side with Ricky Bobby on this one, Jesus is Jesus
In the eyes of God, Jesus will always be "kiddo". Maybe even "sport".
Hey, when you’re hungry you’re hungry
Yes! We have no mana!
In order for those infants to be tender you gotta smack--DEMONITIZED--