I'm not terribly surprised, since snark is *also* effectively an attempt to pull authority and demolish criticism by making something sincere ridiculous and position the snarker as a morally superior enlightened being.
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It seems like the kind of thing that only needs to be true if you're a boring white dude?
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Well I mean Daisey did actually go to Shenzhen and even though nothing that happened there changed his mind about Foxconn being an abusive company there was also, reasonably, nothing super dramatic that happened that he could use for a story
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And it seems like Scocca was kind of hung up on this in a way that's... well, smarmy ("So you're saying you LIED") With Daisey it's obvious why he got caught up in it, because Apple and Foxconn had billion dollar brands under attack and fired back with both barrels
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But the Sedaris thing was about him getting caught up in the wake of this - I think literally because Daisey namedropped him as someone who made things up - and then someone "fact-checked" Sedaris like "I don't think his funny story about being a mall Santa really happened guys"
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And of course the Online Leftoscape is absolutely rife with a hybrid species where they regurgitate ridiculous revolutionary cosplay calling for mass slaughter & singing paeans to the glory of the working class but claim it's just snark if challenged on its mawkish tone.
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Yeah I mean dunking on Scocca and Gawker going "You're playing the role of a truth telling defender of the working class for your own clout for clicks and to get laid" is its own kind of snark But he classifies it as smarm because it's "counter-snark"
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