The Aversion to Sarcasm

Sarcasm often seems more acceptable. People really like punching up and they don't write down. So it's often more okay to use sarcasm against people in power, because it seems okay to be. Seems okay to be mean to people who are powerful, I guess. In some sense, we just hold higher people to stronger standards of argument or, you know, reasoning or whatever. And we just allow lower people to just be sloppier or more unfair, if you will.

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