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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn’t the joke of the article that gene Weingarten is a total fusspot about food? 
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This! That is the whole point--that he had thought of himself as being sophisticated but is actually immature, misinformed, and whiny. It's satire.[/quote]

Satire punctures someone else's pretensions. If you think Weingarten is actually aware of what an ass he is -- seriously, not as a joking defense mechanism -- you are not familiar with his work.

"I'm going to say something racist, but it's a joke so you can't get mad or I'll accuse you of being thin-skinned and humorless" is not the impenetrable defense he thinks it is.  [/quote]

Satire can also be used against oneself, which is what Weingarten routinely does, and what he did in the article in question.

However, the world in which we live is becoming a world of people are quick to take offense to anything and everything. It's a world in which witty humor and satire is rapidly becoming less understood.[/quote]

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