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> palatable tension and a change of topic When someone enthusiastically mentions something they liked and wanted to talk about and you immediately take a shit
by jacobolus 3y ago
> palatable tension and a change of topic
When someone enthusiastically mentions something they liked and wanted to talk about and you immediately take a shit on it, it's not really a surprise that this creates "palatable tension" and a change of subject (and likely a longer-term wariness to share when talking to you). If you really dislike discussing related topics, there are surely less condescending ways of expressing that.
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- greggsy 3y agoThey’re implying that many people use it as a way to take some moral high ground in a conversation, not knowing that others might also have acquired this ‘intellectual power’.
- jacobolus 3y agoMy experience is that when faced with what seems at first like pseudo-intellectual nonsense, it's usually more productive to either explicitly say I don't feel like discussing the topic, or else try to get someone into a serious conversation about the details, instead of trying to insult or shame the other person. Sometimes people are just bad at smalltalk / earnestly oblivious to the impression they leave / trying hard to impress for whatever reason, and aren't really trying to be pretentious even if they initially come across that way. YMMV.