Re:Worst Union in America (2012)
by ebullientocelot on Sunday January 13, 2019 @01:43AM
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Your comment is literally the first time in my life that I have seen the words "teachers get paid well" in what seems to me to be a serious fashion. Someone quoted below that the highest paid teachers are pulling something like 68k.. I'm east coast, and not smack dab in a major metro, but still--calling 70k "well-paid" seems pretty unrealistic.
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This isn’t true in SoCal. Many teachers are making 100k per year. My wife was a teacher.
You missed the implied /s in "teachers get paid well". It's a parody, based on his quote from TFA.
Re:Worst Union in America (2012)
by ebullientocelot on Sunday January 13, 2019 @06:10PM
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:facepalm:. Yea that makes much, much more sense. My bad.
Hey, we all get pwned by Poe's Law, sometimes. Especially when it's about something that's important to us. So no blame.
And I apologize for going off-topic, but Poe's Law arguably underlies much of the recent drama about online censorship. Twitter, Mastodon, Patreon, etc. That is, many who feel strongly about various sorts of hate speech have zero tolerance for stuff that parodies and satirizes that hate speech. But of course, there are also lots of trolls out there, whose only goal is upsetting people and generating lulzy reactions. So confusion is understandable.
And that's how it is with Poe's Law. When you see and hear (for example) Lenny Bruce, Dave Chappelle, Bill Hicks, Richard Pryor or Chris Rock, you know that it's parody and satire. But when you read stuff online, there's no context.
Anyway, it's sad.