Comment by mrguyorama
4 days ago
The problem is that there are numerous people on HN that spew these insane takes fully sincerely
A Modest Proposal is a lot less funny when you have people who really do believe we should eat babies to solve the Irish problem.
One teacher handed out sour patch kids gummy babies and had the students read A Modest Proposal. Really drove the point home. It was epic. https://old.reddit.com/r/Teachers/comments/1hz41n1/a_modest_...