Oh please educate yourself.

[Getagripffs]

Why has this become a thing! Saying this? It's bloody horrible.

Someone just said it to someone who started a thread about whether she owed a taxi driver a quid or not.

Is no-one allowed to converse on a topic they have not extensively researched before hand, anymore?

It's ridiculous!

Agree it’s intent is to belittle and put someone down.

Yes, it is! It's pathetic really.

It’s awful - so rude and pointless because surely in asking a question, educating yourself is the exact thing that you’re trying to do.

@Ozgirl75

It’s awful - so rude and pointless because surely in asking a question, educating yourself is the exact thing that you’re trying to do.

Absolutely! I never understand this arsey response to a question! It's very 'i know but I'm not telling or sharing my knowledge'!

It's woke for 'your views are cancelled'

Used too make others feel superior when they can't actually answer themselves, I see it as a form of gatekeeping, surely I wouldn't need to educate myself if they knew themselves too tell me?

I really hate it because the point of asking the question is clearly to gain an understanding.
So with that in mind (and I think the op said it in the taxi thread) the questioner is trying to educate themself therefore don't need to be told to educate themself.

I find its a new way of being belittling and rude.

It's a bizarre retaliation. If you think someone is wrong and you can back yourself up, why don't you just 'educate' them? To me is screams of not actually having any sort of argument at all.

It’s ironic though isn’t it when people (who clearly lack education) equate knowing some random fact with being educated? Education and knowledge are not the same thing.

As I am a woman of a certain age it sends shudders through me. Pol pot and the Khmer Rouge did a lot of 'educating' in Cambodia in the early 1970s....

Only heard/said on MN (by people who only ever saw it on MN once and think it makes them superior).

Yes. It is stupid and rude.

It's often used by someone who disagrees with you (when they believe something they read on social media!), as a cheap put-down.

It's bloody horrible

I quite agree, OP.

Ironically MN has now become a more rude place than Twitter. Even when a simple yes/no will suffice, people feed the need to be rude.

@KurriKawari

Ironically MN has now become a more rude place than Twitter. Even when a simple yes/no will suffice, people feed the need to be rude.

I wouldn't say it's more rude. No one get's told to 'choke on my dick' or anything of that nature on mumsnet.

Agee op. It's totally pathetic and embarrassing. I mentally cringe for people who use it.

I don't understand the need that some have to try and appear "superior" to strangers on a forum. Something lacking in their own lives I suspect.
Surely one of the great strengths of MN is the variety of people on here and the massive amount of different experiences?
I have seen wonderful, patient advice and support given on here as well as a bloody good laugh and gentle kicking when required. I hope the nasty people don't stop others from posting.
Remember, opinions are like arseholes everybody has one.

As annoying as “can you provide a link to that?” as a passive aggressive alternative to telling a poster you basically don’t believe them.

@SengaStrawberry I ask for links - not to be PA, but just so I can actually read for myself, see the sources of info. It's no PA to take 'facts' from some random on the internet as gospel.

@AHF1975

It's woke for 'your views are cancelled'

This.

I think asking for a link is reasonable given the amount of pure BS that people regurgitate. One can ask politely ofc.

'Educate yourself' does sound a bit like the sort of thing a 'woke' XR activist would come out with.

There are many gobshites posters with a superiority complex on here lately.

@maddiemookins16mum

Only heard/said on MN (by people who only ever saw it on MN once and think it makes them superior).

Are you kidding? Practically every other tweet from some “influencers” use it as an insult when discussing BLM or trans rights along with “authentic”, “lived experience”, “no skin in it”. It’s coded language that millennials use to try to exclude others who aren’t in their gang.

'Educate yourself' and 'check your privilege'..
Usually said by spoilt 'uni' students with breathtaking unawareness of irony...