From: Sceptilesolarbeam | #026
I love how you both don't know what irony means (the correct word is hypocrisy), and have to strawman things so hard to draw that conclusion.
You're right, hypocrisy is the right word. But I'd love to hear your educated discourse on how, exactly, my analysis had anything to do with a strawman. Fact is, the comic makes a blatant assertion that anyone who takes the movie seriously is a complete moron, unable to think things through for themselves. Now whether or not that is a correct statement is completely irrelevant to the FACT that the method which the author used to present that assertion is no different that the method used by zealots to assert that anyone who fits into modern society is a morally bankrupt hedonist.
The point wasn't that people are smart or dumb for thinking that Idiocracy could happen. The point is that the author has the same sweeping, broad, derogatory, smarmy, arrogant vibe that religious zealots have when they look down on people who are "worse" than them. The comic made a point about people being intellectually lazy in the same way that zealots are intellectually lazy; I made a point about the comic being intellectually arrogant in the same way that zealots are intellectually arrogant.
So yes...enlighten me on how any of that involves a strawman.
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