Current Events > When did sarcasm become a positive thing?

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Historically I've always thought that sarcasm, while possible to be funny, is usually kinda mean spirited and generally viewed as a more negative quality for someone to have. It also always seemed kinda low hanging fruit, you know?

But now like on facebook and stuff I keep seeing all these women post memes about how sarcastic they are and how great it is.

And then a lot of times someone says something and then they say they were just being sarcastic but what they said wasn't sarcasm at all.

whats going on here
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Jane Austen at least helped to pioneer the use of sarcasm as a mark of quick wit, worldliness, politeness and good humor.

EDIT: But she's predated by Jonathan Swift, who himself is predated by Henry Fielding's Shamela.
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Gee, I dunno.
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