Editing Satire (section)

====Bad taste====
Common uncomprehending responses to satire include revulsion (accusations of [[Taste (sociology)|poor taste]], or that "it's just not funny" for instance) and the idea that the satirist actually does support the ideas, policies, or people being ridiculed. For instance, at the time of its publication, many people misunderstood Swift's purpose in ''[[A Modest Proposal]]'', assuming it to be a serious recommendation of economically motivated cannibalism.{{Citation needed|date=September 2021}} Much later in history, in the weeks following [[9/11]] the American public at large found works of satire to be in bad taste and not appropriate for the social climate at the time. Some media outlets at the time, like essayist [[Roger Rosenblatt]] in an editorial for ''Time'' magazine's September 24 issue, would go so far as to claim that irony was dead.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Jones|first=William R.|date=2009|title="People Have to Watch What They Say": What Horace, Juvenal, and 9/11 Can Tell Us about Satire and History|url=https://muse.jhu.edu/article/365928|journal=Helios|volume=36|issue=1|pages=27–28|doi=10.1353/hel.0.0017|bibcode=2009Helio..36...27W|s2cid=162089939|issn=1935-0228}}</ref>