Self-peasantization is a vice, not a virtue.

I, for one, even when I disagree with an article, cannot make myself scare quote experts and whine about journalists.

It tortures me that, at the end of the day, I'm either:

A) I'm just making excuses for disagreeing by pretending groups of people are monolith and there's no such thing as subject matter expertise

or

B) I'm just generally upset and going on an off-topic rant.

I wish for a 3rd and better option, lashing out has a nice opiate effect, but I really can't stand looking mendacious.