[Gunrunner2]

Ever hear of "parody," "sarcasm," and "irony."

Main Entry: 1par·o·dy 1 : a literary or musical work in which the style of an author or work is closely imitated for COMIC EFFECT OR IN RIDICULE 2 : a feeble or ridiculous imitation

Main Entry: sar·casm 1 : a sharp and often satirical or ironic utterance designed to cut or give pain 2 a : a mode of SATIRICAL WIT DEPENDING FOR ITS EFFECT ON BITTER, CAUSTIC, AND OFTEN IRONIC LANGUAGE USUALLY DIRECTED AGAINST AN INDIVIDUAL b : the use or language of sarcasm

Main Entry: iro·ny 1 : a pretense of ignorance and of willingness to learn from another assumed in order to make the other's false conceptions conspicuous by adroit questioning -- called also Socratic irony 2 a : the use of words to express something other than and especially the opposite of the literal meaning b : A USUALLY HUMOROUS OR SARDONIC LITERARY STYLE OR FORM CHARACTERIZED BY IRONY c : an ironic expression or utterance

[Dark Wing]

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[Psycho_Bunny]

The context of parody and irony you're thinking of is one of derision:  like calling someone who posts an anti-Jew screed at DemocraticUnderground a member of the "DUhstapo".

Over the years I've had a few posts deleted by Admin Moderator but would I call him the "FReestapo"?  No.  Because I respect the mods and the posts were made in anger and should have been pulled.

"Pajamahadeen" isn't amusing because it's derisive of ourselves.  And the context in which it was created had absolutely nothing to do with the Middle East.  Had the word not come up in the CBS/Rather scandal.....had the situation in some way actually been about the Middle-East...the word might be slightly clever.

And to be perfectly honest, my earliest memory of world events was Islamic nut-jobs over-running our embassy in Iran.  By the time the World Trade Center came down I'd seen 20-odd years of muslims cutting off people's heads, blowing innocent people up and treating a quarter of the world's female population like sh!t.

I'm all out of the ability to find anything humorous enough about Arabs, or the psychosis they call a religion, to want to label myself with any of it.