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overgeneralizing mischaracteristizations of people who use the internet You could read it like that, but I garnered a different understanding. I read it
by fogus 15y ago
overgeneralizing mischaracteristizations
of people who use the internet
You could read it like that, but I garnered a different understanding. I read it as there are some people on the Internet whom are categorized as smug, not that everyone on the Internet is smug. We've all encountered them before surely. They tend to jump to conclusions and rush to dismiss others based on the tiniest perceived slights.
- raganwald 15y agoCould Mr. Lei have been engaging in parody? I tried to respond in kind. ;-)
- quackingduck 15y agoPretty sure fogus' response was a parody too :)
- polymatter 15y agoReminds me of [Poe's Law](http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law http://rationalwiki.org/wiki/Poes_Law) which states "it is impossible to create a parody of Fundamentalism that SOMEONE won't mistake for the real thing". Though I think it should generalise to "there exists no parody which can unambiguously be identified as such". Doesn't that make parody's great?