Re:In which I answer all of the questions (2012)
by chc on Friday April 25, 2014 @05:11PM
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Manners are a solution to the problem "Disagreements escalate out of control and only come to harmful resolutions." There were expectations of civility long before there was a concept of an aristocracy.
Manners were an invention of the aristocracy.
my opinion is that Jeff was replying to Shanley with what he considered to be a better approach to the topic.
Except that Jeff can't even bring himself to acknowledge Shanley in his post while stealing her title and structure after making an ass out of himself on Twitter such that he deleted the (MLK-splaining, among other) tweets before writing that post. He's participating in bad faith and being I-know-better, but what does he care? He has no skin in this game; he's got his.