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Children and SatirePlaying off of the video Rick posted previously, with the defense of the song "Read a Book", the newsreporter asks if kids can understand satire. I see how it doesn't matter because the song is more of a distraction from the normal hip-hop, but what do you think about the maturity necessary for satire? Is there one? With the right context, could a child understand satire?
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Do adults understand satire out of context?
I think kids are perfectly able to understand satire in context and out of context similar to how adults do. CNN is run by adults but they don't seem to be able to get the satire even in its original context (The news anchor is aware that "Read a book" was originally aired on BET with other hip hop videos). Kids may have a harder time picking up on satire, but it's obvious that adults do too. What I'm trying to say is that a certain level of maturity is required to understand different kinds of satire but maturity isn't a function of how many times you've gone around the sun (correlation isn't causation).