by chippy wrote:Being American, I just can't bring myself to read this entire thread, only to learn what I already know. It'd just piss me off more. So, please forgive me if any of these examples have already been brought to bear:
Protesters waving a "Don't Tread on Me" flag while at a rally in support of an Iraq invasion.
"We were here first." Meanwhile many native Americans live in poverty on reservations just a few miles from the speaker.
"I don't want socialized medicine. I want to keep my Medicare." For those of you who don't know, Medicare is a government funded Medical system for the elderly.
Or how about one of my recent favorites... The posters of Barack Obama with a Hitler mustache being bandied about by knuckle dragging, confederate flag waving, big business protecting, oil chugging, ultra right wing fascist fuck nuts. These are the same people who often haven't a pot to piss in, yet think regulations on oil companies and financial institutions is an outrage to capitalism.
Not all Americans fail to understand irony, as I'm confident many of you know. I've never heard this claim before, but I certainly can't argue against it. I suppose an "ignorance" defense could be proffered for those dimwits, that they simply don't know what fascism, or socialism mean. Nor may they understand the meaning of such patriotic symbols of Early Americana embody. But surely, in the end, if they understood irony, perhaps there eyes could see how ridiculous they look and their ears how childish, petty and (perhaps the ultimate irony of all) "un-Christian" they sound.
Sadly, the list of examples is exhaustive and ever-growing.
That sounds about right, unfortunately. Lovely eh?
And really, no one I know, save for a few, understands irony. In the slightest. Hah.
But I've never understood this Americans/irony crap. Plus it makes the person who says it sound like a right tosser imo. Can someone give me some examples of Americans not getting irony?
