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by wlonkly 652 days ago
It's worse than that, it's feigned surprise. "I disagree" is at least intellectually honest, "Huh?" is pretending that the position is so far off that they couldn't even understand it.

I learned the term "feigned surprise" from Recurse Center's social rules[1]. It's related to, but not exactly the same as, that well-known XKCD about "today's 10000", too[2].

[1] https://www.recurse.com/social-rules

[2] https://xkcd.com/1053/

1 comments

Why is it feigned? Why can't it be (mild) genuine surprise?