It's always off-putting seeing AI proponents do this kind of strawman psychoanalysis and pretty toxic to reasonable discourse. I constantly see it used as a sort of prebuttal when layoffs/automation comes up to depict the other side as insecure/scared/"coping"/etc.

It comes across as smug and superior, conveniently dismissing any opposing arguments in advance by framing the interlocutor as emotional and irrational regardless of what they may say in response.