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What do you consider ironic about two groups of long-isolated (from each other) humans making contact and there being conflict? There are no similar events at
by aksss 2y ago
What do you consider ironic about two groups of long-isolated (from each other) humans making contact and there being conflict?
There are no similar events at this scale to compare to (what is your context for irony?).
Looking at the smaller-scale examples, the presence of conflict seems entirely consistent, and hardly ironic.
I’m guessing you’re reading “brought together” as some sort of idiom for happiness and mutual understanding. That would be an incorrect reading, in which you are adding your own meaning and assumptions to what was written. Take it more literally.
- netdevnet 2y agoI considered ironic that the user used a positive expression "humanity coming together" for what was one of the most destructive invasions in human history. I suggest you ask any native to America what they think about that term? "humanity coming together" is definitely a positive expression. The cambridge dictionary says "to help people or groups to become friendly or to do something together, especially when they would not usually do this". And if you look at the user's text the act of "bringing people together" is framed as something morally good/worthy. In this context, our explorer faced many challenges but achieved something good (i.e. bringing people together). Imagine if we used that term for other horrifying events in history where a group of people unalived a country's worth of another group of people
- aksss 2y agoNo, you’re adding your own bias into this reading. You are putting your own thoughts into the head of another, projecting. You can’t burden another person with that. Read it literally.