I dunno, I don't think the divide he's talking about is nearly as sharp as he claims Every snarky satirist has something they very fervently and earnestly believe in that they'll give you hell for mocking
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Replying to @arthur_affect @banalexistence
Every Seth has his showtunes, you might say?
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I feel like this deserved more recognition
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
It's kind of more like Seth getting all self righteous about atheism
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Replying to @Nymphomachy @banalexistence
I just mean that snark and smarm aren't really separate or opposed at all, they always go together Snark is the offensive weapon and smarm the defensive one
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Yeah, or idk - maybe something like 'smarm' is what snark calls its targets, like the con-men and their 'marks'.
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Replying to @mssilverstein @arthur_affect and
uwu might be the defensive version, though.
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"Uwu culture" is hiding "smarm" (civility norms) behind its own ironic mask to avoid the association with the previous generation of smarmy conservative Karens or whatever
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Replying to @arthur_affect @mssilverstein and
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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the whole NotcherShield thing, yeah
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