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   • Annalee Newitz 🍜
   • Mignon Fogarty
   • mkb

   @mkb @annaleen @grammargirl I’d go for smugdenfreude

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     • Mignon Fogarty

     I am repeating my request for a term to describe the confluence of confirmation bias and schadenfreude.

     That is, I irrationally dislike Foo, news comes out that Foo is bad in some way, then I feel smugly justified in my irrational dislike as though I knew all along.

     (See Substack.)

     Surely someone has already coined a term for this. @grammargirl, have you any thoughts?

     #nomenclature