I am not PDV and thus can’t speak to his view of your comment, but to me this sort of “psychoanalyze another commenter” thing is quite off-putting. Were your comment about me, I would find it most insulting.
There are valuable insights in what you say. I won’t, for now, say more about the substance of your comment, lest my response be taken as endorsement of this style of discourse; but the dynamics you describe are very much worth discussing.
But not in a personal way. Not directed at a specific commenter. Doing it that way is, quite frankly, disrespectful.
I would encourage you to make a post about this, or perhaps to start a comment thread in an Open Thread—without the personal targeting.
I am not PDV and thus can’t speak to his view of your comment, but to me this sort of “psychoanalyze another commenter” thing is quite off-putting. Were your comment about me, I would find it most insulting.
There are valuable insights in what you say. I won’t, for now, say more about the substance of your comment, lest my response be taken as endorsement of this style of discourse; but the dynamics you describe are very much worth discussing.
But not in a personal way. Not directed at a specific commenter. Doing it that way is, quite frankly, disrespectful.
I would encourage you to make a post about this, or perhaps to start a comment thread in an Open Thread—without the personal targeting.
That’s fair.