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I dont agree that calling someone ignorant is a personal attack, or name-calling for that matter. if I had said "you're an idiot" it would be different, but ign
by redeeman 3y ago
I dont agree that calling someone ignorant is a personal attack, or name-calling for that matter. if I had said "you're an idiot" it would be different, but ignorant is a fairly polite language, that somewhat distances from the sphere of "personal attack", and removes any accusation of motivation and bad intent entirely.
- dang 3y agoI hear you, but if that was your intent, then you weren't communicating it clearly, because calling someone ignorant in an internet comment is guaranteed to come across as a personal attack. https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&query=burden%20disambiguate%20by%3Adang&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que... Moreover, "spewed BS" was name-calling and also guaranteed to come across as a personal attack, and in this context, one can say the same about "I feel sorry for you". That makes 3 swipes in just a single comment! Please edit out such things from now on.