There are few people more predictable and boring than the professional contrarian.
This made me think about all the other types of people I find insufferable. So here's a thread.
This made me think about all the other types of people I find insufferable. So here's a thread.
The social media ironist: this person is invincible because nothing means anything and everything is permissible because its "mere irony". Opinions without the burden of responsibility.
Irony is a potent rhetorical tool used in moderation, not when it becomes the default mode.
Irony is a potent rhetorical tool used in moderation, not when it becomes the default mode.
The "free speech" liberal.
Doesn't have any strong opinions on more fundamental rights, but is an absolutist on free speech and thinks the only measure of its vitality is if you can test it against the sensitivities of people in inferior positions.
Doesn't have any strong opinions on more fundamental rights, but is an absolutist on free speech and thinks the only measure of its vitality is if you can test it against the sensitivities of people in inferior positions.
The journalist who confuses Twitter for Tinder. Has an attitude that is both knowing and ostentatiously modest. Makes wry comments using the mock heroic form about trivial things (beer, socks, nutella, etc) to imply he is above naive idealism. "I don't take myself too seriously"
Anyone who retweets Thomas Chatterton Williams.
The identity politics entrepreneur. Both types:
1—Lays exclusive claim to certain social & political domains by virtue of identity; renders all politics as identity politics.
2—Uses identity as a license ("speaking as an X") to dismiss identity as a factor in varied experience
1—Lays exclusive claim to certain social & political domains by virtue of identity; renders all politics as identity politics.
2—Uses identity as a license ("speaking as an X") to dismiss identity as a factor in varied experience
White person with #FreePalestine #BLM #ACAB & a red rose in their bio who also admires Bashar al Assad, the man who besieged, tortured & killed Palestinians in Yarmouk, hosted Euro-Nazis, &voversees a secret police apparatus that executed 13K unarmed protestors in just one prison
The inveterate whatabouter.
They comes in all shades—left/right; imperialist/anti-imperialist; zionist/anti-zionist; Islamist/anti-Islamist. They raise human rights abuses in one place only insofar as it helps them whatabout human rights abuses in another place.
They comes in all shades—left/right; imperialist/anti-imperialist; zionist/anti-zionist; Islamist/anti-Islamist. They raise human rights abuses in one place only insofar as it helps them whatabout human rights abuses in another place.
The diaspora nationalist.
Comes from a repressive state, positions himself as a dissident in the west, lives & speaks without fear—but uses his new freedoms to disparage dissidents back home as subversives for seeking the right to live & speak without fear.
Comes from a repressive state, positions himself as a dissident in the west, lives & speaks without fear—but uses his new freedoms to disparage dissidents back home as subversives for seeking the right to live & speak without fear.
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