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Is anyone else worried about this trend where people seem to believe the more angry someone gets at the things they say the more correct they must be?
by ixtli 7y ago
Is anyone else worried about this trend where people seem to believe the more angry someone gets at the things they say the more correct they must be?
- ohduran 7y agoOh, you're going to love this[1]: > "Ladran, luego cabalgamos" ("They bark, therefore we ride") or "Ladran, Sancho, señal que cabalgamos" ("They bark, Sancho, sign that we ride") is also atributed to the book but it actually comes from Goethe's 1808 poem Kläffer ("Barker"; obviously, without the interjection of "Sancho": :But their strident barking / is only a sign that we ride"). In its stock phrase version, it's used to say that an attack from one's enemies over a recently taken action is a sign that you are doing the right thing. There is an even more insulting version, "Ladran, señal que son perros" ("They bark, sign they are dogs"). [1]https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/DonQuixote https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Trivia/DonQuixote
- TeMPOraL 7y agoWhich direction? Reversed stupidity is not intelligence so I don't see people being angry as evidence towards the target of that anger being correct, but witch hunts tend to be done by people who are either wrong or malicious or both, so I read that as evidence against the hunters.
- ixtli 7y agoI'm not sure I understand. I've just observed a staggering amount of internet commenters (often, but not at all limited to, people who are made very upset by people they label "sjw"s) assert either directly or by implication that the fact that people get angry at them is evidence that they are right.