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In reply to the discussion: Meet Amanda Richardson of Springfield, Ohio. She wins the internet today. [View all]Collimator
(1,874 posts)18. She's sort of pulling a reverse Jonathan Swift.
Swift, in A Modest Proposal brought attention to appalling social conditions by satirically suggesting something outrageous in a reasonable tone. Richardson is exposing a false narrative by spotlighting positive social conditions in the idiom of satirical outrage.
She really is brilliant.
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Meet Amanda Richardson of Springfield, Ohio. She wins the internet today. [View all]
demmiblue
Oct 4
OP
Thinking people are outraged at the GOP lies they are being told to accept or else
bucolic_frolic
Oct 4
#5
I'm outraged that she is effectively using her free speech right(S) to act Christian like
Augiedog
Oct 4
#10
Yeah, but some of those Haitians and their kids are doing better than some white people
JI7
Oct 4
#16