Precisely what mode of thought was he satirizing? "Satire" has a meaning - A Modest Proposal wasn't Swift going "haha what if we ate babies"
OK, but the concept is historically nonsensical - antisemitism was a large part of early and medieval Christianity - and the term itself didn't come into use until the 40s. > If you are not familiar with it see the…
Precisely what mode of thought was he satirizing? "Satire" has a meaning - A Modest Proposal wasn't Swift going "haha what if we ate babies"
OK, but the concept is historically nonsensical - antisemitism was a large part of early and medieval Christianity - and the term itself didn't come into use until the 40s. > If you are not familiar with it see the…