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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And that equivalence ("You don't want to be like a smarmy Karen do you") is how people who really have very little power that putting up walls at all is privileged and problematic and they owe it to the world to lower the drawbridge and open the gates
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“uwu boundaries are super elitist and so are capital letters uwu”
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It all really comes down, in the end, not to axioms about snark vs smarm or self care vs not, but "What are you defending yourself about? what are your foundational premises?" and we're not comfortable making arguments on premises so we focus on forms.
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Right, Scocca I think was reacting to a then-current trend where people were decrying "snark" or "irony" *universally* and saying this was often a deceptive defense of the powerful, which is true But the better argument is just that they don't mean it and don't do it
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