"Pretentious" Is a Word For Keeping People In Line

There was an incredibly stupid, but in its way revealing, Twitter discourse yesterday. A guy wrote a viral Tweet in which he said that if you read at a bar, nobody likes you. Lots of people got mad at him, because this is both an insulting and a bizarre remark. So then he doubled down, and said that bar-readers are “pretentious.” And that’s the move tha…