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Originally Posted by ApK
What definition of "irony" applies here?
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The word irony has come to be applied to events that are merely curious or coincidental, and while some feel this is an incorrect use of the word, it is merely a new one.
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You can argue whether or not the above meets your definition of ironic, but clearly reading about the Marches in March meets this criteria.
Now what is truly ironic is attempting to use the method of Socratic irony ("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") to expose what you may have perceived as my ignorance of the use of the word "irony."
