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@brouhaha@mastodon.social @emeb@society.oftrolls.com As I said, this was my first time coming across it. I can understand why he might have got a negative reaction. People feeling threatened by it and feeling uncomfortably like he's referring to them, I guess. It didn't bother me at all, but I get the idea that some people have such fragile egos that if "cleverness" (not necessarily even theirs) is attacked, they take it as a personal attack on them. Also, yeah, it's good to acknowledge the privilege of being able to play "easy mode." I've read pluralistic talking about it regarding his relatively easy path to citizenship (actually, really fucking hard). It's a show of solidarity... recognising that other people have it much worse. So, from what I've gathered from this conversation, I'm also 100% in agreement with Scalzi. Thanks for filling me in on the history.