A Modest Proposal Q: What three words precede "for preventing the Children of Poor People From being a Burthen to Their Parents or Country, and For making them Beneficial to the Publick" in the title of a 1729 satirical work by Jonathan Swift?

@Dewiwrites Also, one need only look at Jonathan Swift's deliberately ghastly satire, "A Modest Proposal", for a fairly good idea of how subhuman the Irish were considered to be by the British elites in the 18th century, too. Some aspects of the text are exaggerated, ofc, but only to a point

“Kors and Silverglate told the story of a professor in San Bernardino reprimanded for violating sexual harassment policies because, among other things, “he assigns provocative essays such as Jonathan Swift's A Modest Proposal,” “ https://t.co/8lmkv1ouMm