I was suggesting that they weren't responding in good faith. Which in this instance was the creation of straw man.

Stop being a pedant.

Instead of the usual "basket weaving" as an example of a useless field of study, he used "history of the Kardashians."

Yes, this is called a straw man argument. People don't like them on hacker news. Please stop defending people making arguments like this.

It was obviously a good faith response, and if you look at what people do versus what their degree is in, it's obvious that college education for many students might as well be studying the Kardashians. I think literally none of my relatives use their post-secondary education, except for a lawyer (who doesn't use his undergrad degree) and a guy who presumably went to culinary school. And a retired college professor, I guess.