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danc4498@lemmy.world 7 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 7 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.