> I don’t go around making others feel bad for being supposedly intellectually inferior to me
The author balanced this by clarifying that it "is one thing in practice not to read books, or not to read them as much as one might wish. But it is something else entirely to despise the act in principle."
> it’s just to say that reading is good, well, uh, duh
Did we read the same article?
It's pointing out that folks who virtue signal about not reading are raising a red flag. It's not disparaging people who don't read, but who publicly praise themselves for not reading and go on to denigrate those who do.