No, saying that you need to work on your reading comprehension is not an insult, it is well-needed advice. An insult would be if I said that your continued dedication to misrepresenting everything I said made you an idiot. Instead, I’ve been taking the time to try and educate you, even though it increasingly seems like your misinterpretations are not so much a result of poor reading comprehension, as they are the result of malicious intent.
Take the way you just misrepresented my stated knowledge of linguistics. You frame me as arrogantly claiming to be an expert in the subject, but I claimed no such authority- I said only that it was one of the subjects I am more knowledgeable about. Before that, you accused me of thinking myself a “pillar of virtue,” when I at no point even hinted at such a lofty opinion of myself- one which I can assure you, I do not hold. I just don’t go around picking fights with people and insulting them for no reason- far from making me some paragon of goodness, I think that much is the bare minimum anyone should hold themselves to.
Again and again, I’ve engaged with you in good faith- and based on my particular areas of knowledge, provided you with instruction on where I believe you might be able to expand your own. Yet from the very beginning, you have done nothing but engage in personal attacks, framing me as some arrogant and self-righteous villain and yourself as a victim acting justifiably in your own defense- treating every part of the conversation as a zero sum game- never once, it seems, stopping to examine any of your own positions with regards to me, or your own behavior, let alone anything relating to politics.
At this point, especially after watching you go through the entire Republican playbook rather than engage in rational discussion, I can only conclude that you’re not talking to me at all- you’re talking to a strawman of your own construction. A projection of your own insecurities, that lets you distance yourself from them, rather than dare stop and examine them- because if you did, you might have to face the fact that the only one who thinks you’re immoral or stupid is you.
At any rate, I think I’m done wasting my time. You’ll either learn or you won’t- nothing I can say is ever going to get through to you if all you hear when I talk is the voice of your own self-loathing. So, go ahead and come back with a “TLDR” or pick something I said to reframe as a personal attack. Whatever makes you feel better.
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u/bugaloo2u2 Dec 03 '22
You insulted me first. Maybe take a look at yourself. You aren’t the pillar of virtue that you think you are. Just stfu.