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I kinda chuckled at the author's "he regularly backs up his financial advice with Bible verses, erecting a clear fence around his target audience" quip. The ki
by throwaway0a5e 4y ago
I kinda chuckled at the author's "he regularly backs up his financial advice with Bible verses, erecting a clear fence around his target audience" quip. The kinds of people that people like the author profess to help are not nearly as "fenced out" by a little bit of bible quoting as people like the author are. The author then goes on to spew a bunch of stuff that's functionally equivalent. The stuff about "acknowledging privilege" and whatnot serves the exact same purpose in the author's article as the bible quoting stuff does in Ramsey's content.
I have no strong feelings bout this sort of rhetoric. It's a typical part of this kind of communication. However, I have very strong feelings about the cognitive dissonance displayed by the author and the double standard underlying it.
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- flenserboy 4y agoYes. I can't count the number of articles that I've seen which boil down to, "I disagree with x in this article/book/movie because it wasn't aimed directly at me and did not agree with me entirely about everything not having to do with the subject."