I am well familiar with passive aggressive. This isn’t how you fight it, is the point. Getting worked up is exactly the goal. Go outside. All of you.

> This isn’t how you fight it, is the point

Social condemnation has always been used to help keep the behavior of a group within certain acceptable bounds. Whether it's as effective in today's world of ever-escalating attention-seeking competition as it once was is questionable, though.

> Getting worked up is exactly the goal.

I don’t know who you think is worked up here, but it’s not me. I was merely expressing what impression the author’s choice of words left on me. And clearly I wasn’t alone in that regard. You are the one who chose to attack me as “projecting.”

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You are getting a lot of feedback that you are the one who is mistaken here. Have you considered digesting it instead of defensively escalating?

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Are you as familiar with "condescending" as you are with "passive aggressive"?

Who is getting worked up? Who is "outraged", or looking to "manufacture" it?

I mean, the only person these descriptions apply to in this discussion is you.

Google's blog title is weird. Every normal human being that speaks English will find it weird. Maybe the author is on the spectrum, or maybe they thought their humour would carry better in a technical blog. Your agreement with this is not at all our concern.

Maybe you should go outside and settle down?