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[–]Alienhunter 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

No, but there's a very fine line between simplifying your message for mass appeal and patronizing your audience. There's also a problem where, while it's definitely justified to simplify things for a less refined audience, one can lean too hard into that and fail to have the audience grow in their understanding.

This is an issue with language teaching, when teaching a language at first it's beneficial to talk extremely slowly and simply, but if you don't up the level and push people past their comfort zone they'll be useless when it comes to real life circumstances. This leads to the "Spanish people talk too fast" type of comments, they don't talk too fast, you understand too slow.

[–]MagicMike 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A black audience likely will have a mean IQ of 85. If you speak to them like you would a White audience, they will first get bored, then irritated, and finally angry (white supremacy). Of course, a black physician or engineer (likely a lot of white ancestors) would understand everything you said but most blacks won’t. It’s rather pointless to try.