This isn’t a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.
What would you teach? There’s no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe’s law applies. This isn’t some political cartoon in a newspaper
I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.
In this meme, I feel that “tipping landlords” is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I’ve never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.
“Cuck Chair” should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.
You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know
This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.
There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I’d probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.
This isn’t a Lemmy problem, this is just the Internet. I feel like we need to start teaching how to recognize sarcasm and parody in different styles to kids in school.
True, but Lemmy tends to be VERY fundamentalist from a political standpoint.
I’m pretty liberal but the extent of it makes users gullible. If you hate another group enough it’s easy to believe almost anything about them.
What would you teach? There’s no clear indicators of sarcasm here. You would have to have the cultural-economic knowledge to know whether tipping landlords is expected and prior knowledge that this is a running joke apparently (I just found out from this thread). And poe’s law applies. This isn’t some political cartoon in a newspaper
I hear you, and I can only speak from my own cultural education, which I learned over time from exposure.
In this meme, I feel that “tipping landlords” is pretty apparent, given that landlords are not employees nor do they provide a service. I’ve never known anyone to give a tip to a landlord.
“Cuck Chair” should be another tip off as well, since this is a reference to another meme.
This is likely true of most memes though, where the culture to know, are memes themselves. Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra, and whatnot.
There are indeed already college and university courses to study memes, so if I were to seriously think about what to teach in a highschool I’d probably base the curriculum somewhat on that.
Critical thinking is discouraged in schools, they want good cookie-cutter workers.