Hypothetically Speaking

Thank you.

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But you think about what would be the best nasty name to call them, I assume. And you might decide to take offense at one interlocutor rather than another, and could give reasons why. (You don't lash out indiscriminately at the latest offender.) In other words, there's judgement involved--the point is not just to incite an equivalent resentment in the other, in anticipation of some showdown. If so, I would say that your taking offense is, as you say, a resentment on behalf of the center, and it leaves the sphere of resentment/offense as soon as possible by invoking the authority that defends what are today the at least nominally established limits on expressed resentment. Resentment may be ineradicable, but it can be made intelligent through donation to the center.

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One thing I hadn't considered but is obviously the case is that "outmoded" media still exist in a marginal or submerged form and can be reactivated and "repurposed," in which case, who knows, maybe there's some use for online "duels" where one plays into their stereotypes, acts the crazy they think you are. In the end, though, one wants to have a handle on it.