You're claiming to have status and authority to make a particular claim about reality - "Outsider" status, a status which gains you, with respect to adjucation of insider status and authority games... status and authority.
Now, your argument could stand or fall on its own merits, but you've chosen not to permit this, and instead have argued that you should be taken seriously on the merits of your personal relationship to the group (read: taken to have status and authority relative to the group, at least with respect to this claim).
[edit: I did not downvote anyone in this thread.]
You're claiming to have status and authority to make a particular claim about reality
I am? Is that how we are evaluating claims now?
Here is how this conversation played out (roughly paraphrased):
me: EY has a big ego.
Viliam: I wish you would stop digging up people's youthful indiscretions like that. Why not go do impressive things instead, why be a hater?
me: EY wasn't young in the time period involved. Also, I have my own stuff going on, thanks! Also, I think this EY dynamic isn't healthy.
you: Argu...
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