Cf. any time a screenshot dunk goes viral on Twitter and someone tries to go "Okay but in context what he clearly meant was"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
It's funny because before that happened Daisey's overall career was absolutely Team Snark by any reasonable standard, like the Gawker stuff about mocking hipsters and techbro culture and "writering"
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Before the stuff came out about the story of the worker with the disfigured hand being fabricated, if you made broader fact based criticisms of his piece you'd absolutely get shat on for smarm ("Actually the Shenzhen suicide rate is lower than the US overall")
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
I mean, again, I say this as a big fan of DFW, it's ironic that he brought up his cruise essay because it was fake in exactly the same way Mike Daisey's monologue was fake and he openly admitted it but nobody cared in that instance because cruise companies are cringe anyway
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Replying to @arthur_affect @Nymphomachy and
Daisey's defense that "Look in the world I come from of literary essays and dramatizations no one really cares if the stories you use as illustrations actually happened" is one of those awkward "It's true but he shouldn't say it" things
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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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Hell even the ones who are sincere marginalized folks on an almost daily basis (and I'm sure I've fallen into this with some frequency) start regurgitating all sorts of smarmy mawkish heroic rhetoric. Snark *loathes* heroism because it thinks giving a shit is ridiculous
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I mean the alternative to loathing heroism is being told that we're fascist if we criticize Bernie Sanders before he is the president of the United States
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You know the funny thing about Scocca singling out "New Sincerity" figurehead Jedediah Purdy and treating him becoming a rich centrist law professor as the inevitable outcome of smarm is Purdy came out hard for Bernie in 2016
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And the question of whether Sanders 2016 or Sanders 2020 was an exercise in "snark" or "smarm" depends a lot on who you ask, and about what
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This is very true, I can't deny it
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