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Comment by WhitneyLand | Hacker News Reader

I'm honestly curious - through your best effort were you unable to tell this comment comes off as pompous and condescending?

If that is the case, consider this a polite and gentle suggestion that it may be interpreted the wrong way by some.

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It's a legitimate idea hard to express without sounding condescending. Artists get annoyed by "I never needed to go to art school because I taught myself photoshop" as much as others are annoyed by "oh, you're a computer scientist? Can you fix my windows?"

To which the answer is "yes. my rate $200 an hour"...

And professional digital artists get annoyed when their work is being referred to as "teaching yourself photoshop".

To better understand what digital artists actually do, I highly recommend to check out http://artstation.com

Matt, I understand what you're saying - but that wasn't his main point. I object to the summary dismissal of anyone who has a job as unable to be a legitimate artist.

I'm interested in what you think my main point was.

> I'm honestly curious - through your best effort were you unable to tell this comment comes off as pompous and condescending?

Not worst than the writer of the article who present himself this way:

    I am a creator.

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