Imagine someone not particularly intelligent but very clever. It doesn’t take a genius to see who runs shit. A clever person cuddles up to this strength and does their clever best to copy the strong. It doesn’t take a smart person to understand what they’re doing, and the person running the show doesn’t care whether the clever flunkie gets some virtues wrong.
No, the virtue signal sent by the clever person and received by the strong is “i am not a threat, here is my belly, i am your ally.”
It’s a simple defense mechanism by people who truly believe in the authority of authority, and she manages to get it across very well.
Hurr hurr smart guy dunking on her with all those words? He’s technically right, sure, but whether he ignored or missed her point doesn’t matter.
A paragraph teaching us about the history of falafel to someone saying “yes i agree, kill Palestinians” is fun and all but not the fucking dunk we would like it to be
