I was randomly browsing the internet while I came across this term. Can someone help me with explaining the highlighted text of the paragraph? How can I comprehend complex sentences more easily? Should I practise reading published texts? I'm not a story book/novel kind of guy, but if it's an integral necessity, I'll try to read them too.
"Poe's law is an https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adage of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_culturestating that, without a clear indicator of the author's intent, it is impossible to create a https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parody of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extremism so obviously exaggerated that it cannot be mistaken by some readers or viewers as a sincere expression of the parodied views. "
org/wiki/Poe%27s_law The idea is that some people (reading articles on the internet) are so indoctrinated in their extreme views and so blinded by them that they are incapable of distinguishing writers who use sarcasm to ridicule those views from the writings of apologists (extremists) advocating and supporting them. So the sarcastic writer has to include emojis in the text to clarify his real intent.
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It is explained here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poe%27s_law
The idea is that some people (reading articles on the internet) are so indoctrinated in their extreme views and so blinded by them that they are incapable of distinguishing writers who use sarcasm to ridicule those views from the wri