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You might want to look into 'deep-seated lack of humility'
by partitioned 3y ago
You might want to look into 'deep-seated lack of humility'
- mjburgess 3y agoI just find it an amusing way to talk, circumstantially. Since it places a sort of ironic lack of humility against the supposed humility and good-faith of another, and there's an interesting dynamic there. I have an extremely dry sense of humor that does get me intro trouble. Here I was speaking very literally, and yet by using phrases like 'far left' taken to be signalling something non-literal. In doing this I was splitting the audience into those looking for dogwhistles and those reading what i've said. If someone replied having read what i'd said, i'd take quite a different tone. That someone reacted superficially, to supposed implications that didn't exist -- well, that doesnt great any obligation on me to be anything other than ironic.
- soco 3y agoLooks also like a Dunning Kruger effect. Luckily it's only a HN storm in a teacup.