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It was satire. (And in my earlier comment I had the wrong George Kent) https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/un-touts-then-memoryholes-the-be
by fallingfrog 4y ago
It was satire. (And in my earlier comment I had the wrong George Kent)
https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/un-touts-then-memoryholes-the-benefits-of-world-hunger https://www.michigancapitolconfidential.com/commentary/un-to...
- sobkas 4y ago>the use of humour, irony, exaggeration, or ridicule But it doesn't use any of the above. It's just a factual description of conditions under which people enslaved by hunger live and how we* benefit from their misfortune. It's not even exaggeration, it downplays how much we* benefit from hunger. *in general richer people(not rich, just richer than exploited masses)
- jjk166 4y agohttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/satire 1: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn This is definitely a work holding people's vices and follies to scorn
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- yunohn 4y agoYour link clearly mentions that the author did not mean it as satire.
- DangitBobby 4y agoTFA quotes George Kent as saying it's not satire. The point was that there are people who benefit from others being hungry, that is Kent's position. > “For those of us at the high end of the social ladder, ending hunger globally would be a disaster. If there were no hunger in the world, who would plow the fields?” Kent wrote. “Who would harvest our vegetables? Who would work in the rendering plants? Who would clean our toilets? We would have to produce our own food and clean our own toilets. No wonder people at the high end are not rushing to solve the hunger problem. For many of us, hunger is not a problem, but an asset.”
- ttpphd 4y agoFrom the article "Kent said he was not writing sardonically" Sardonic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sardonic https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/sardonic "disdainfully or skeptically humorous"
- bool3max 4y agoThe author confirms that it was not.
- thedailymail 4y agoIt is very common for satirists to deny that they are writing satire.
- stuckinhell 4y agothe links says it's not satire.