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Young and beloved rapper Yung Chins just recently rereleased released his debut album “Numbers Don’t Lie” to widespread critical acclaim, though his album was not reviewed favorably by audience members, not even landing on the Billboard Hot 100 Charts. Not one to be deterred, he reportedly “spent the next day chopping up his album into one-second songs.” “I was just thinking, ya know” he drawled in an interview with star reporter Nathan Davis, “if y’all deluxe album trend can make Nav score a number one album than I’m clearly not playing this s**** right. So I decided to go bigger and better. F*** Lil Baby and Uzi and all them Lils, that bald music critic ain’t score them well at all. But I got a perfect 10/10, so y’all know my music good as all of thems.” Anthony Fantano, the supposed bald music critic and confirmed savior to musical criticism, declined to comment. “So now it’s clear that ma music ain’t the issue, it’s how my music was released. So imma do the deluxe trend one bette...

     It’s common to see bad takes accustomed with a hastily written “it’s just satire bro!” below. Satire has become a shield for offensive opinions to hide behind as if simply stating that it’s satire will make the opinion any less offensive. Satire is defined as “the use of humor to expose and criticize people’s stupidity or vices” on Google, but personally, I feel that they left out a key component of satire. Satire is meant to spark a change, to make people scratch their heads and reflect on themselves in the context of society. And usually, offensive content is the best way to convey this point as long as it actually haves a point. If satire is simply stating offensive things without criticizing a problematic way of thinking, it’s not satire; it’s just a bad opinion. And this type of bad satire often resonates with racists and bigots who embrace the intended satire as the truth. It’s not difficult to identify satire; authors usually go for over rather than under exag...

               Ignorance is a disease, infecting the people around us as a whisper traveling through the air into the ears of unsuspecting victims or a set of words, maliciously liked and retweeted and referenced as the disease is spread further and further away from Patient Zero. In my eyes, ignorance is humanity’s greatest fatal flaw, transforming us into tragic characters, “[people]…[that do] not fall into misfortune through vice or depravity, but...because of some mistake…” (Bedford pg 1502). We look away from grievances enacted in plain sight simply because acceptance of such grievances is much harder to stomach than remaining ignorant. The willfully ignorant allow themselves to be manipulated because they believe in the illusion of choice that’s presented to them, the choice to dictate their own actions and ideas.