Literature must no longer be a required course because these kids couldn& #39;t recognize irony if it hauled them outside and kicked them in the ass.... https://twitter.com/TrumpStudents/status/1300868640489824256">https://twitter.com/TrumpStud...

Can I fault these "students" lack of understanding when adults have been misusing irony for the last thirty years? "Ironically, the pitcher and batter hail from the same town." That& #39;s not even ironic if they grew up across the street from on another.

It& #39;s a coincidence. Irony is unexpected. Now if the pitcher& #39;s sister just got engaged to the batter and he kills him with a beaner, then that& #39;s ironic. And if the pitcher& #39;s father beaned and killed the batter& #39;s father a decade before, then that& #39;s irony writ large.

Ironically, I proof read this thread and still misspelled a three-letter word. It should be "one another" instead of "on another."