Just want to make sure I have that right. He spoke up so now they are making shit up to try and defame him? Do I have this bullshit right?

  • TempermentalAnomaly@lemmy.world
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    9 hours ago

    Well thank you.

    I reread it and I’m not seeing it. Can you point to any specific sentence that was particularly sarcastic? Elsewhere someone said the last sentence. I think I can see that. When I wrote it, I felt like I was helping.

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      9 hours ago

      I read Gorilladrums statement:

      “It’s truly beyond me how people have the energy to keep with celebrities”

      as being sarcastic. I find it difficult to see it any other way. I read it as Gorilladrums expressing exasperation with cultural obsession with celebrity. I didn’t read it as him asking for someone to explain it to him. I’m pretty sure that’s the last thing he wanted. In that view of his post, which is the view that I assumed most folks reading his post would have, your response of explaining it to him in simplistic terms comes across as sarcasm and condescension. I understand now that this is not the context that you were viewing his post in.

      Given my understanding of his post as an expression of exasperation with the culture of celebrity that does not expect or invite a response, I’d say both your first and final sentences come across as deliberate condescension, because both of them seem to imply that Gorilladrums didn’t understand something, and required an explanation, when it seemed clear to me that he didn’t expect or want. Therefore a response providing an explanation seemed like a teasing or a taunting in defense of celebrity culture that he was really just railing against. Again, I understand now that condescension was not your intention, and you were sincerely trying to assist.

      A sincere question: is English your first language?