Nothing annoys me more than being talked to like I'm stupid by people that know better. It brings the speaker no tactical advantage. The energy raised doesn't blow up, thereby destroying my own structures. I use it to hone and target my response. That's not an advantage to me, because in the end I'm still annoyed...I don't read any Republican sites regularly because my second greatest annoyance is being talked to like I'm stupid at all.
Talking to me like I'm stupid can be done while agreeing or disagreeing with me. Tends to come mostly from the Conservative side of the agora but there's more than enough coming from the liberal side to make it feel like a two-front war on occasion.
Because I'm the Black partisan, not the Democratic, Black Democratic, or Democratic Black partisan, I still have to attend to those of real talent who are, well, wrong. Partly because watching the weaving of a complex bridge connecting undeniable fact (be it physical or social) with desired outcome using processes restricted by political orientation is just interesting. I remember reading some mathematician said something like the more eloquent the proof the less sure its basis. I feel something similar is at work here; and as in mathematics you can learn from interesting failures.
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