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Do the guidelines not also say something about ignoring such immaterial swipes and focusing on the matter at hand?
by tedunangst 4y ago
Do the guidelines not also say something about ignoring such immaterial swipes and focusing on the matter at hand?
- tptacek 4y agoSure. If there wasn't already a sprawl from this, I'd have kept quiet. But like, the "summer child" thing really is super annoying, and the parent commenter is mostly right, if off-topic.
- tedunangst 4y agoI'm only here because we're all here. But summer child seems like the most prosaic insult possible, if one can even call it that, and it serves as a sort of useful shorthand. With a certainty approaching 99%, I think there is something better to be annoyed at.
- tptacek 4y agoI don't think it's super insulting or anything, it's just a condescending swipe. When you take a condescending swipe, you set a ceiling on the tone for everything that follows.
- Apocryphon 4y agoIt’s not so much an insult as a dumb overused meme popularized from a show that ended years ago in ignominy. It is known.