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Satanists to volunteer in Florida schools in protest at DeSantis religious bill
(www.theguardian.com)
this post was submitted on 08 Jul 2024
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You assume the general populace can recognize intent in writing, and differentiate between things like comedy, satire, and factual statements when they aren't explicitly declared in context.
The fact there is currently so much successful propaganda spread worldwide through traditional media that we're seeing a large resurgence of extreme nationalism, xenophobia, and Nazism again, along with a current very public genocide with a ton of public support, proves that to be factually incorrect. The average person is fucking stupid.
Are we then supposed to lower the standard of all writing to the lowest common denominator, then? I get your point, but I'm not sure the solution is to move to grade school levels of communication.
For some things, yeah, probably. If you're trying to inform people, you need to adjust your communication to something they'll understand (and you can stomach).
You don't need to change your novel to appeal to everyone.
A lot of marketing and journalism already targets a sixth grade level because many people don't read well.
It's a British news outlet. Just because you're reading it in the U.S. doesn't mean it was written with an American sense of humor in mind.
Clearly no one but the British can possibly be familiar with British humor.