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I'm legitimately uncertain if this is a bad idea presented as satire or a sincere idea.
by Kalium 5y ago
I'm legitimately uncertain if this is a bad idea presented as satire or a sincere idea.
- no-s 5y agoheheh...“A Modest Proposal”. Kids, stay away from the free lunch, it’s made of people... I think it might be in the genre of HaHaOnlySerious.
- trackstar 5y agoWhy would you feel it's a bad idea and or satire?
- Kalium 5y ago"A Modest Proposal" is the name of famous satirical essay: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal It involved selling children for cannibalism. As Wikipedia notes: > In English writing, the phrase "a modest proposal" is now conventionally an allusion to this style of straight-faced satire. Opening with that title, complete with correct capitalization, reads like an allusion. It's enough to make me think exceptionally skeptically about a proposal to turn gifted students into what is sometimes euphemistically termed peer educators.
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