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Rhetorical style of “Enjoying this thing and if you aren’t, you are wrong! Reprioritize your life!” is, umm, dickish

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Dave Slusher says:

March 1, 2017 at 5:41 pm

I flat stopped listening to any Moisés Chiullan podcast because of how often he’d say “If you aren’t reading Comic X, then shame on you!” If reading different books is a chiding offense, I’m out dude.

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J Edward Wynia says:

March 1, 2017 at 6:07 pm

And it nearly always is accompanied by “You enjoy a thing I don’t, which makes you even more wrong. Reprioritize your life.” Somehow, magically, the “right” priorities are always the person making these statements.

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