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This response is dripping with contempt.
by BitwiseFool 4y ago
This response is dripping with contempt.
- uoaei 4y agoI'm only responding in kind. People ought to recognize how they come across in discourse, for the purposes of good faith discussion all around. What better way than to hold up a mirror? Or do we expect egos to be so domineering that they cannot recognize their own behavior in the reflection? I don't think it's imperative to disguise contempt for those who are so obviously not engaging in good faith. Doing so only provides cover for that same bad faith actor to abuse the culture of respectability politics and antagonize others.
- BitwiseFool 4y ago>"What better way than to hold up a mirror? Or do we expect egos to be so domineering that they cannot recognize their own behavior in the reflection?" Good advice, yet I'm sensing a lack of self reflection. Good-faith discussion is incumbent on all participants. You are quick to assume offense and once you perceive that you have been slighted you do nothing to try and steer the conversation back into the kind of discourse you desire. Indeed, you react with "contempt" - your words. There is a time and place for such reaction, but I feel like de-escalation and disengagement should be the go-to strategy most of the time.
- samatman 4y agoIt was. Happily I have a Jerk Filter and will never see that string of vowels on this site again.
- uoaei 4y agoSee as the ostrich buries its head. As an ostrich it can do nothing else.