Trolling absolutely can be a form of satire, and has existed far longer than the internet. While there are trolls who do it simply to spark anger or get attent

Trolling absolutely can be a form of satire, and has existed far longer than the internet. While there are trolls who do it simply to spark anger or get attention, some do it to point out the absurdity of an argument. > IMHO, "political correctness" is not the problem, it is a symptom. The problem is that society is becoming increasingly stratified, and large swaths of it don't accept differences of opinion. > Trolling, to me, just aggravates the actual problem: deep socioeconomic/racial/sexual inequities. I'd say it's the opposite. If anything, it points out the deep hypocrisy among certain groups to accept different opinions. When I think of trolls that exist outside the internet, I think of something like Charlie Hebdo, which satirizes a subject in a rather extreme way that's meant to provoke. Or a public figure like Milo Yiannopolous, or even Kanye West.