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Once upon a time it was satire; now it’s public policy.
I write a lot of satire, and every now and then a reader mistakes it for real news and gets upset over it. It’s gotten rather easy to make that mistake. And it’s gotten a lot harder to write satire… an in age which daily satirizes itself.
Really–what could a satirist ever make up, to equal the grotesque absurdity of some “non-binary” adult lecturing kindergarten children on the joys of “choosing your gender”? Eventually, for sure, Far Left Crazy will find a way to surpass even this; but for the satirist it’s knee-deep in the crick-mud.
God help us, today’s public policy is yesterday’s satire.
It’s almost impossible these days. Even Babylon Bee posts sometimes get mistaken for the real thing. And I notice that UnKnowable thought I was joking about the pronoun “frogself,” but there really are TikTok videos in which “furries” — people who “identify” as various animals” — have given their so-called pronouns as frogself or catself or some such noun hybrid. Here’s an example:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/W8WBENGS_Wc
The Bee fools me sometimes, too.
For a moment, I thought that was an old photo of Biden.
You can discern Lee’s satires by the funny names he uses, otherwise they seem very plausible in our age of depravity rules the culture.
“Izzy Kidden” wouldn’t have fooled you.