"Where were you before!" and "you're surprised?" is the political equivalent of "this isn't new!" People want to justify their passivity.
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Not everyone can or should to be engaged with everything. But why try to discourage and tsk-tsk everyone else? That's the pernicious part.
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Cynicism and savvy-posturing will corrode one's soul. We all vent. I just don't like the effort to beat down people who want to ask Q now.
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I see it used more by activist folks - it expresses fristration, but I can't see what they hope to achieve from it.
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As rhetoric, it shames people back into passivity for fear of otherwise "doing it wrong"
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