I don't miss miss barak at all. He was a smart guy, but he wasn't interested in conversation so much as baiting everyone. And he felt that, if he told everyone that he was baiting them, that made it okay. He wasn't talking to people, he was playing a little game of his own.
The subtext, if you take that approach, is that you don't respect the people you're talking to. That is, I think, the very worst thing one can do here.
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