This old essay kind of captures my issues with Sedaris' writing style and the idea of being "anti-irony"https://gawker.com/on-smarm-1476594977 …
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And I'm not saying it doesn't have problems but it clearly exists because people want and need it Honestly the strongest criticism of this is that when people erect walls they're not-so-secretly doing it on defensible high ground to protect their own catapults
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That's what the "SJW callout culture" critique is about, that people are hypocrites about it I try to set up my "As a child of struggling immigrants, how dare you, a well off white American" to pre-empt your "As a queer trans woman, how dare you, a cishet man" etc
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Yeah - it's an interesting pairing of a layer of irony, with a very, very intense rejection of any possible criticism. Smarm seeks to smother critics, snark fires back, while uwu escalates dramatically.
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I think of the Community line about "reverse-bullying" a lot in that context.
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