I don't get it. You appear to me attempting to make the case that it was simultaneously actual praise, and calling it backhanded. These ideas are not compatible. Something is not "close to praise," either it is, or it isn't. This clearly wasn't.
It's good that you (unlike OP) acknowledge that it wasn't. Because that, as I said, is retarded.
What you've got there is "charitable." This was definitely not that.
There's "damning with faint praise," and there's backhanded compliments and there's condescension, and paternalism, and white lying, and all sorts of ways to technically say nice things, while the real meaning behind the words is critical. The difference is in intent.
Thing is, this "praise" of Trump's toward Biden was in the middle of a bunch of other communication Trump was putting out, that was certainly the furthest thing from kind. In context, there is no way the intent was in any way charitable. This snippet was specifically curated to make it sound this way, though, because philosohomo is a huge faggot who only does one thing.
Painting it as actual praise is retarded.
When someone says "Aw, that's so good...for you," I hate to break it to you but they're not actually being nice.
I don't get it. You appear to me attempting to make the case that it was simultaneously actual praise, and calling it backhanded. These ideas are not compatible. Something is not "close to praise," either it is, or it isn't. This clearly wasn't.
It's good that you (unlike OP) acknowledge that it wasn't. Because that, as I said, is retarded.
What you've got there is "charitable." This was definitely not that.
There's "damning with faint praise," and there's backhanded compliments and there's condescension, and paternalism, and white lying, and all sorts of ways to technically say nice things, while the real meaning behind the words is critical. The difference is in intent.
Thing is, this "praise" of Trump's toward Biden was in the middle of a bunch of other communication Trump was putting out, that was certainly the furthest thing from kind. In context, there is no way the intent was in any way charitable. This snippet was specifically curated to make it sound this way, though, because philosohomo is a huge faggot who only does one thing.