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I repudiate the tone and style and not the content. For whatever reason, the author comes off as "other and separate" from the problematic system, rather than
by eutropia 6y ago
I repudiate the tone and style and not the content.
For whatever reason, the author comes off as "other and separate" from the problematic system, rather than an earnest participant interested in improving the system. Seems to lack humility or curiosity. The presentation prevented me from getting into (the admittedly familiar) material re: structural faults of neoliberal capitalism and American exceptionalism.
- zepto 6y agoCan you quote anything that shows how they come off this way?
- eutropia 6y agoNo, because “it’s just like, my opinion, man.” In all seriousness, my issues with it are my own, and if you don’t get the same tone from reading the first few paragraphs: that’s totally ok. So I don’t think I’d be able to make a strong case to someone skeptical. Chances are, it wasn’t the author’s intent and the author isn’t as shallow and pedantic as this article makes them seem to me.
- zepto 6y ago“pedantic as this article makes them seem to me.” The article doesn’t make them seem anything. You have done nothing but attack the author, rather than the substance. At best that’s a poor kind of reasoning.