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by balsam 1315 days ago
It’s a regular failure mode in human interactions. Just because someone is attractive/charismatic/sincere doesn’t mean they should be taken seriously, and just because someone is ugly/inarticulate/creepy doesn’t mean they should be disbelieved. Extreme idiocy and true genius are just invisible to most people (before the fact), and the discerning folk get only Schadenfreude.