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Tagged: rhetoric
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Your sarcasm is showing — and its history is surprisingly violent
Ayana Archie
| Apr 8, 2026, 9:00 AM UTC
Some people use sarcasm jokingly. But funnily enough, we tend not to find it witty when we're on the receiving end.