condescension
Original: condescension on Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal
Transcript
Title panel: NEW MODES OF CONDESCENSION -FOR- MODERN LIFE
Panel 1 (header caption): ASSUMING YOUR OPPONENT'S PERSPECTIVE IS ACTUALLY A SEX THING.
A man with curly blue hair (to a woman): "Ah, so what you're saying is you have a neoliberalism fetish. Hey, as long as it's consensual, you do you."
Panel 2 (header caption): DATA-AUGMENTED CREDENTIALISM
A balding man (to a woman): "Yes, that about as much insight as I'd expect from a person whose university acceptance rate was 63.1% during their first year of enrollment."
Panel 3 (header caption): ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT IDENTIFIES WHAT SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT AND READS A RELEVANT WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE TO THEM SLOWLY
An AI/robot voice: "Staaatiiistiiiiics issss aaaa braaanch offffff maaathemaaaaatics."
Votey:
A disembodied voice in a speech bubble: "I just don't want to have to explain it to my children."
(Below the bubble is a drawing of a person's head with curly hair and a downturned mouth.)
Panel 1 (header caption): ASSUMING YOUR OPPONENT'S PERSPECTIVE IS ACTUALLY A SEX THING.
A man with curly blue hair (to a woman): "Ah, so what you're saying is you have a neoliberalism fetish. Hey, as long as it's consensual, you do you."
Panel 2 (header caption): DATA-AUGMENTED CREDENTIALISM
A balding man (to a woman): "Yes, that about as much insight as I'd expect from a person whose university acceptance rate was 63.1% during their first year of enrollment."
Panel 3 (header caption): ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE THAT IDENTIFIES WHAT SOMEONE IS TALKING ABOUT AND READS A RELEVANT WIKIPEDIA ARTICLE TO THEM SLOWLY
An AI/robot voice: "Staaatiiistiiiiics issss aaaa braaanch offffff maaathemaaaaatics."
Votey:
A disembodied voice in a speech bubble: "I just don't want to have to explain it to my children."
(Below the bubble is a drawing of a person's head with curly hair and a downturned mouth.)
Alt text
A four-part SMBC comic titled "New Modes of Condescension for Modern Life." Panel 1, captioned "Assuming your opponent's perspective is actually a sex thing," shows a curly-blue-haired man telling a woman: "Ah, so what you're saying is you have a neoliberalism fetish. Hey, as long as it's consensual, you do you." Panel 2, captioned "Data-augmented credentialism," shows a balding man saying: "Yes, that's about as much insight as I'd expect from a person whose university acceptance rate was 63.1% during their first year of enrollment." Panel 3, captioned "Artificial intelligence that identifies what someone is talking about and reads a relevant Wikipedia article to them slowly," shows two people while an AI drones out, stretched and robotic: "Staaatiiistiiiiics issss aaaa braaanch offffff maaathemaaaaatics." Votey: a person's head with a glum, downturned mouth beneath a speech bubble that reads: "I just don't want to have to explain it to my children."
Transcribed by Claude Opus 4.8.