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by marmaduke 651 days ago
> stating the obvious

What is obvious is wildly different among people. For instance, it was obvious to me that the article was sharing some ideas freely, and those ideas are ones which are not obvious to everyone in the workplace.

“It’s obvious” is a rhetoric which puts the person who’s not getting it on defense. Usually it’s pretty counterproductive too.