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Born in the USA Was a Protest Song (lemmy.world)

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[–] Zexks@lemmy.world 89 points 1 year ago (10 children)

It’s a studies thing. Conservatives are unable to grasp irony or sarcasm. It’s one of the reasons Steven Colbert stopped his show. The people he was mocking were holding his character up as someone to aspire to.

[–] pythonoob@programming.dev 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What?! I didn't know that

[–] pyre@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago (1 children)

yep, conservatives watched him unironically.

[–] MidRomney@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

I watched The Colbert Report for years with my mom before realizing that she was just straight up agreeing with the things he was saying.

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