Condescension.
This is a strange argumentative tool because the only person impressed by its use is the person who employs it. To other participants in debate, and to observers, it just makes the person who uses it look like kind of a dick.
One of my fav tweets: http://twitter.com/trelvix/status/1021869170
“I’m not being condescending,” I insisted. “I’m being patronizing.” “*That’s when you talk down to someone,*” I whispered.
Source: indefensible
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my fav tweets: http://twitter.com/trelvix/status/1021869170 “I’m not being condescending,” I insisted. “I’m being...
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that really all there is to it? It seems to me that...point of condescension
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