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A comment on People Aren’t Dumb, the World Is Hard. Parent comment
To the people saying the explanation ruined the joke, I’d ask you to take a minute to consider whether you viewed it as a joke or a shibboleth.
If only those who know ‘got it’ and explaining it ‘killed it’, then isn’t it by definition a shibboleth?
In-group language is exclusionary by definition. Is this a good thing?
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To the people saying the explanation ruined the joke, I’d ask you to take a minute to consider whether you viewed it as a joke or a shibboleth.
If only those who know ‘got it’ and explaining it ‘killed it’, then isn’t it by definition a shibboleth?
In-group language is exclusionary by definition. Is this a good thing?