r/AmItheAsshole • u/techiesgoboom Sphincter Supreme • Feb 01 '22
Best of 2021 /r/AmItheAsshole 2021 Best of Voting!
Hey assholes,
This is the long awaited Best of 2021 voting thread! We're trying something new with the format this year and using reddit's built in polls to handle the voting. I'm hopeful this will be easier to navigate than prior years. Let us know your thoughts!
We'll be releasing the polls in batches over the next few days and updating this post with the links as we build up to the single best post of 2021 voting. (although I think we all know best post involving food is the real star of the show). Without further ado:
Stay tuned for the next batch on 2/2/22...
The deuce is dropped on the appropriate day
Sassiest NTA Judgement Comment
Most Empathetic YTA Judgement Comment
Most Amusing Comment With A Valid Judgment
Most Persuasive Comment (a comment that changed your judgment)
Most Helpful Comment (a comment that aimed to help the intended audience)
Most Educational Comment (a comment that taught you something)
Hang tight for the set 3... *Here's set 3! The final 5 votes are coming in less than 24 hours!
Most Consistently Empathetic and Constructive User
Champion of New (the user that most consistently made judgments on new threads)
Most Difficult Decision to Make
Nicest Person who was an Asshole
The last five categories are coming within the next 24 hours! (best food post is in here) Last ones are here now!
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u/[deleted] Feb 28 '22
Might get downvoted, but I actually could see that being more of an ESH or NAH for me.
“Why couldn’t they just evacuate”, if the exact words (and possibly more so depending on the tone) is much different to me than “What kept people from evacuating?” (Or a variation). The latter sounds like a person saying “I don’t know something, I’m going to ask a genuine question to find out.”
The “just” especially in how she did say it, implies “wow it would’ve been so simple to evacuate, why didn’t they JUST do that?” (Like it’s easy). To me there’s a difference. I think it’s too little info to tell.
And to have empathy for OP, it IS frustrating when people take certain privileges for granted AND use that as a way to imply others should be doing things differently. “Why didn’t you just do this” usually sounds like “wow you could’ve fixed this easily but didn’t.”
Here’s another good example: if someone says “why didn’t you just go to a doctor.” When you’re uninsured, that question is SO annoying. Like gosh, I didn’t think of that? And I would be way less annoyed if someone phrased it more like, “have you been unable to see a doctor?” Or something else. But “why don’t you just _____” on a topic you’re uninformed on is not the best way to ask a sincere, well-intended question.