Oddbean new post about | logout
 The problem is, is that these same ‘below-grug-tier’ people are actually simply saying we should cede everything, from higher education and learning to the humble but knowledgeable trades, because of some nefarious association with judaism that they refuse to explain.

It is people using the lexicon of our social group to enforce their backwards worldview, thinking the buzzwords alone make their argument. They figure that if they can claim the ground first with those words that anyone who questions them or their argument is suddenly suspicious; the most immature way to posit an argument.