Don’t worry everyone, I’m sure someone somewhere is worse and that makes this okay somehow.

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    7 months ago

    I think you and the others trying to pass off the same idea don’t seem to understand the problem here. It’s not that you can’t have satire, or fiction that acts as a social commentary. It’s that all of the examples you are mentioning aren’t trying to pass themselves off as reality . Nobody reads A Tale of Two Cities and thinks that it is literal. Or A Modest Proposal. This here is trying to pass itself off as real and as soon as it gets called out for it, the choir shows up to say “Oh, so we can’t have satire anymore”.

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      7 months ago

      I genuinely don’t think anyone thinks these are trans-inclusive homeless spikes.

      At best they got painted bright colors for visibility and they accidentally used the trans flag

      • KillingTimeItself@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        7 months ago

        at arguably more best, someone decided to vandalize them as an act of political commentary.

        “It’s often said that the most potent form of rhetoric is the contradictory form” - i just made that up :)