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by alphachloride 1589 days ago
> The site’s now characteristic tone of performative erudition—hyperrational, dispassionate, contrarian, authoritative ...

Reading this, I felt the description hit very close to home with regards to a substantive amount of discourse here. I also learned a new word!

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It's very meta, because "performative erudition" could be the subtitle of The New Yorker.
And just using the phrase "performative erudition" is itself an example of performative erudition!
They should know it when they see it.