[chmod775]

> Making people needlessly uncomfortable when communicating is a shortcoming regardless of your intellectual capacity.

Emphasis on needlessly. Some bluntness is a good thing, even if it makes people uncomfortable. The alternative usually is prolonged awkwardness and beating around the bush, which likely will make people uncomfortable anyways. Just get it over with like an adult. Don't drag an uncomfortable thing out or even risk people not getting the message at all the first time around.

[chefandy]

Sure— the word choice was deliberate. If someone is known as a blunt person broadly, chances are they sucked at communicating appropriately.

[chmod775]

Germans are known as blunt. I don't think they are collectively being inappropriate.

[chefandy]

All communication is relative to it's cultural context. Refusal or inability to operate within cultural mores is very different than having a different baseline to begin with.