a cryptful of cats on Mythryl: “it's a stablemate of the equally dishonest argument "so how would…”

it's a stablemate of the equally dishonest argument "so how would you do it better then". neither are intended to actually elicit a response. they're "shut up" for someone too cowardly to say the words

Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social

More generally, "you don't use it so you don't have standing to critique it" is a move to construct expertise narrowly and erase the expertise of people best qualified to expose the harms. >>

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