My problem has been your approach. Straight up.

I never said you were wrong about homeschooling. I said you didn’t provide evidence outside of anecdotes. I was wrong about that. And I said I don’t have a problem with homeschooling. In fact, I acknowledged that I’m sure your experience was good, but was trying to imply that’s not the case for everyone, just as you were saying.

I said your vocabulary was indicative of a place of superiority and then the responses were rather condescending. I have a feeling that has to do with you being so defensive about your experience with homeschooling. And it seems to me you might have wanted to emphasize that you’re not a stupid, brainwashed religious product of the homeschooling system. In turn, your initial response was rather excessive in what seemed like an attempt to prove your point. I’m not a psychologist and I don’t know you, but that’s how it is from my perspective. But, I admitted that I’m also not having a productive conversation on the topic at hand.

However, I wasn’t trying to talk about the substance of your argument. I was pointing out that it’s flawed due to the aforementioned responses. And nothing was controversial, just needed evidence to back it up.

Look, dude. I’m going to admit I was wrong in being unable to find your two sources. Of course, without seeing that, the verisimilitude of your comment was questionable. Otherwise, I read every comment that responded to you and your subsequent responses.

To your point, though, the words aren’t too big for me, and you’re clearly demonstrating how condescending you can be by saying things like that. Don’t catch me with the hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia reading comprehension nonsense. I can pull out verbose bullshit too.

And if you were looking for a good faith debate, you wouldn’t be so fucking aggressive in literally all of your responses. Point blank. There have been no attempts, as far as I can tell, to redirect the conversation in a positive direction in any way from anyone—and I’ll admit I’m a part of that problem. However, due to your abrasiveness, you’re not making your argument any stronger.

I’m not against homeschooling, by the way. The person that called it child abuse also sucks, in case you think I’m being impartial.

Bro, put the thesaurus down. I have a Master’s Degree in English and a Master of Fine Arts Degree in creative writing and even I can’t take the excessive vocabulary shoehorned into your reply. Not to mention your sentence structure, punctuation, and feigned formalities. (Hence the “trying to sound smart” comment.)

And before you respond so aggressively like you have with other comments, I’m not doubting your education and how you believe homeschooling has its advantages. However, you’ve refused to provide evidence backing up your claims beyond anecdotes. I don’t care about the child abuse comment, because your insistence you don’t have to supply a source because they didn’t doesn’t help you make your case.

Also, chill the fuck out, dude. You’re all worked up over an internet conversation.

Clearly politicians continue to know more than climate scientists. I mean, numbers going up is a good thing, right?

We are so fucked.