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!

Why not just disagree, state your facts, link to websites with the facts? This is how reasonable people manage these situations.

Do you need an example of what might motivate someone to give such a “rude” and “not constructive” answer? Go on to the “Is ADHD real?” thread currently running in AIBU. Lots of posts have been deleted for breaking talk guidelines but you can probably take a guess at their contents. After about 13 pages of people who have ADHD themselves and parents of children with ADHD weighing in with facts and opportunities to ask questions and learn more, others are STILL posting ignorant, disablist garbage about how it’s just made up and an excuse for naughtiness. Can you really not see how people might start to feel worn down and impatient with the expectation that they should remain polite and willing to take the responsibility educate others, in this case about a condition that has been recognised by the medical profession for over 100 years?

@AHF1975

It's woke for 'your views are cancelled'

Made me

Phrase normally used by those of little education and less intelligence.

I agree there are times when "educate yourself" is warranted and deserved - situations such as the one @Mrsfrumble mentioned and others like it.

I know you weren't responding to my post but the 'educate yourself' bit I have a problem with (which is what I've mainly seen) is when people ask genuine questions. Suddenly the person going on about how uneducated some people are no longer feels the need to say anything else. It just seems as though it feels better to froth and take offence at someone not understanding some issues rather than to 'educate' this person on what they apparently don't know - either by answering their question (asked genuinely, not in a goady manner) or pointing to the right place.

I always tend to think they don't really know themselves but can't resist posting something they think makes them look big & clever.

Can you really not see how people might start to feel worn down and impatient with the expectation that they should remain polite and willing to take the responsibility educate others

I can, yes, but nobody owes others an education, so why not just detach instead of being rude?

It's also noticeable that some who use the phrase are especially keen on one-liners and parroting soundbites, which makes me wonder if they avoid engaging simply because they lack any real understanding of whatever the subject happens to be

Can you really not see how people might start to feel worn down and impatient with the expectation that they should remain polite and willing to take the responsibility educate others, in this case about a condition that has been recognised by the medical profession for over 100 years?

I certainly can, but, as your post illustrates, saying ' Go educate yourself' in those cases is futile as the type of people you are talking about, as yourself say, are not genuinely interested in debating the question or considering alternative viewpoints.