• frezik@midwest.social
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    12 hours ago

    Interesting to see that take. When it was new, Redditters criticized him for not giving a better response. You know, the response they came up with when they’re sitting comfy in their house, and not actually there in the moment.

    Which is to say that your take is correct when you have reasonable expectations of ability to improv a response.

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      12 hours ago

      I have, unfortunately, been in situations where I needed to convince someone to change their stance only to realize they held that stance out of contrived ignorance. It’s one thing to walk into a situation knowing that you are trying to educate, it is quite another to realize that person has already weaponized their education to push a narrative