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{{quote|So, White Man's Burden, you're a poem. And more then a century after Kipling wrote you, scholars still disagree over whether he was kidding.|John Green|[[Crash Course (web video)]]}}
{{quote|These examples, as absurd as they may seem on the surface, are not outliers or aberrations — they are some of the most massively viral “Is this true?” subjects we’ve ever undertaken. They put the lie to common refrains about “obvious humor,” “obvious satire,” “obvious jokes,” or “obvious” anything else. Quite evidently '''nothing''' can be put online — no matter how preposterous in concept or plainly labeled it might be — that some people won’t believe to be true (or at least allow '''might''' be true).|''[[Snopes]]'' [https://www.snopes.com/notes/why-we-include-humor-and-satire-in-snopes-com/ on why they cover satire.]}}
{{quote|Imagine if, in 1729, there had been a number of letters to the editor by various authors proposing that Irish children be exterminated and eaten. Imagine that laws of that nature were being seriously debated in Parliament, and that one of the parties had made it a part of their platform. While the laws were being regularly defeated, opponents still had to stand up and seriously debate why it was unethical to eat babies. Imagine that a candidate for prime minister actually solemnly suggested that we ought to at least consider the merits of eating Irish children.
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{{quote|@'''FeminismDaiIy''': More mirrors need this 💕
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@'''ChristiJunior''': Wow, this is actually not a parody account..
| [https://twitter.com/FeminismDaiIy/status/647545807084765184 from] ''[[Twitter]]'' }}
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| '''@RealPeerReview''' [https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1047813753180438528.html thread] on a hoax paper titled ''Human reactions to rape culture and queer performativity at urban dog parks in Portland, Oregon''. }}
{{quote|The notion that the nursery rhyme “Sing a Song of Sixpence” was used as a
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