Satire's unfair--and sometimes violent. Gulliver's Travels is full of violence. In fact, an essay in the New Republic discussed how prescient the book is in anticipating the modern concern of genocide. The Houynhnms wanted to wipe out the Yahoos and ended by castrating them to wipe out the race. The Yahoos throw feces at Gulliver, and one female Yahoo tries to sexually molest him. Gulliver leaves Houynhnm-land in a boat made partly of Yahoo (Human!) fat and uses the skin of young Yahoos--that is, of children--to make his sails. The whole work is full of violence, and the target of all the satire is the human species.
Of course, Swift is sometimes accused of misanthropy. but I wouldn't change one word in the book or weaken its critique of the human animal.
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