I was assigned to evaluate a graduate student’s dissertation. In a turn that was unfortunate for both of us, she opened the presentation by informing me that people with the Narcissistic Personality Disorder are often stigmatized as cruel and incapable of empathy.
Of course, by the end of the presentation the student conceded that NPDs aren’t stigmatized as cruel but actually are cruel. And if anything, the general public severely under-stigmatizes this behavior.
The second presentation I had to evaluate started with the words “America was built by immigrants.” It took even more self-control on my part not to start screeching that the concept of an immigrant cannot be used outside of the framework of a nation-state.
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