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danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months agoDo 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.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Satire is not deceitful. You’re not meant to read A Modest Proposal and think rich people are eating poor babies. You’re meant to recognize the allegory and what it says about our real world.
This post is not satire. It is meant to deceive you into believing it is a real photo.
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You’re being way too rigid and literal. That’s not how it is.
Says you based on faulty reasoning leading to a seemingly willful misunderstanding of the point.
danc4498@lemmy.world 2 months ago
You can’t lie to somebody and when called out say, it’s just satire.
I’m not being rigid at all. You are changing the definition of satire so you don’t have to admit this post is BS.