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JerL's avatar

Corollary: since by any reasonable standard we are all profoundly ignorant, no one should be snarky

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This is very true. I think Michael Knowles is a good guy and he is clearly more philosophically knowledgeable than your average political commentator (he is often insightful, in my opinion, when he discusses current events from his unique Catholic perspective), but you're right that his dismissal of January 6th is not helpful.

Also, I think we should just say more broadly that snark in general is almost never helpful. It might be useful when it comes to combating certain groups that are both exceedingly dumb and very angry and aggressive (i.e. holocaust deniers or new atheists), but otherwise, it's just better to treat people kindly and hope that they reciprocate. Dunking on people on X has done basically nothing good for the world, ever.

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