l just don't see the quest for pure, transparent, honest utterance as having all that much to do with quest for equality and justice.
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or maybe they have something to do with each other, but at best at diagonals to each other. ideally people try to be honest...
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and hopefully a more equal/just world will disperse most vicious lies...
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but spiraling into angst about meritocracy because Gary Johnson got called out for not knowing things he didn't know seems bizarre.
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I like the ducking and dodging over whether he's actually in favor of credentialism or not
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Ends up asking for credentials is smarmy elitism when aimed at his Twitter pals but when aimed at Vox writers it's Good, Actually
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WHAT IF I TOLD YOU being a Contrarian Bad Boy of the Left is also a status ladder filled with virtue signaling opportunities
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Which explains his staggeringly un-self-aware tic of blasting careerists and then immediately bragging about how in-demand his opinions are
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Like he's actually deluded into thinking "contrarian" isn't itself a brand that is a vital part of the Content Ecosystem
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This is also how I feel about the supposedly trivial dunk that blabbing about "the Smug Style" is itself smug - it's an important point
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