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It's an example of what should be said instead of arguing...
I thought it was clear from context, but I've been over estimating people a lot lately.
Man you're being kind of a dick. Not saying it's a bad take but you should save the snapping for assholes and not people confused by an argument of little context combating a view that's only implicitly expressed by an image.
You can do the same thing without being vague and making people wonder if they're missing something by saying "many people think you should just keep your head down at these gatherings but..." and by removing the confusing quotes.
And drop the elitism. That shit looks bad on people that have earned it. It looks worse on someone from the internet who made the error of splitting overestimate into two words within their own self-fellating intellect based burn.
Just fucking chill out and feel free to DM me if you need to talk about something.
Different people can pick up on different things...
Like this:
I recognized a flaw of myself and that I need to be more careful and remember there's a reason newspapers are written at a 6th grade level.
The thing about that is reading comprehension is like a muscle, if everything holds your hand you never get better.
Sometimes you fall off when the training wheels are removed, but the other option is being a grown adult who still uses them.
If you're tired of seeing my comments blocking is easy, by all means do it.
Look. If we boil that whole newspaper can of worms down the message looks a lot like "you guys are average and average is stupid and I'm smart." I'm sure with your sense for context you can see why many would conclude that you're still being an elitist asshole.
You can insist it's true- hell, it may even BE true but that's still no excuse for being a goddamn prick. Which is way worse than having reading comprehension skills or whatever.