Tuesday, April 05, 2022

Juvenal Would Approve

Why do I think Greenwald thinks Swift’s modest proposal is real, too? (Good satire is supposed to cross the line between imagined and real. That’s what makes it good satire.) I’ve taught Swift’s famous satire for years. Never once did I NOT have to explain that it was satire. Satire only works when you think it’s real. Also true.

Anyone who spoke approvingly of Putin invading Ukraine is damned by their silence now.

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