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What Grinds Our Gears: Confusing satire and parody

For centuries people have carelessly thrown the word “satire” around to describe everything and I can’t take it anymore. Satire and parody are not the same thing! It seems modern humanity’s definitions are as loose as their morals and the burden has come upon me to set our species straight. So here it goes. Parody: “an imitation of a particular writer, artist, or genre, exaggerating it deliberately to produce a comic effect.” Satire: “a way of using humour to show that someone or something is foolish, weak, bad, etc.: humour that shows the weaknesses or bad qualities of a person,…

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