In a surprising turn of events, Ireland made the decision to ban Swiftian language citing how unfunny A Modest Proposal was and how this genre of humor, formerly known as satire, was no more an invention of their own doing than the potato.
“Potatoes didn’t even come from Ireland. And you know what’s even more outrageous? Tomatoes didn’t come from Italy. So, pasta wasn’t really a thing. Chocolate? Not from Europe, actually from Central America. Jonathan Swift was a horrible person because he was laughing about bipartisan politics in the 1700s. We would rather give up our freedoms than stand behind this man and the entire genre of political criticism he created hundreds of years ago. To hell with every newspaper that followed. No one reads pamphlets in the 21st century.”
