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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months agoAgain, it’s an illustration of the hypocrisy. It doesn’t need to literally exist as a physical object in order to make the point.
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Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months agoAgain, it’s an illustration of the hypocrisy. It doesn’t need to literally exist as a physical object in order to make the point.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s a fabrication of a hypocrisy. If the hypocrisy is real, you wouldn’t need to fabricate it.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Sometimes fiction and altered objects depict abstract concept better than real physical objects do and neoliberals tend not to say the quiet parts loudly like the fascist party on the other side of the aisle has increasingly been doing in recent years.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Do you not recognize that this is deceitful? I understand how fiction can present allegories to demonstrate real world themes. But this isn’t that. This is meant to portray reality and real life hypocrisy but is not actually real.
If the hypocrisy is true, why the deception?
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Because the hypocrites do an effective job at explaining away and obfuscating their hypocrisy. This makes if clear in an way that literal reality doesn’t.
The rich people weren’t literally eating the babies of poor people when Jonathan Swift wrote A Modest Proposal, but that doesn’t mean that his point about their callous disregard for those less fortunate was fraudulent.
This is basically visual satire.
grrgyle@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I mean the hypocrisy really exists, but you’re right that this particularly egregious and shocking example is likely a total fabrication.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It’s called satire.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nice try. It is deception. Satire isn’t intended to be deceptive. This post was.
TokenBoomer@lemmy.world 2 months ago
From the description on Wikipedia:
Satire often utilizes fiction.