I'm with you on this one. It's intended as a sort of, "we all know this but don't say it," or similar, but always just comes off as condescending to me. Maybe because it's so often applied to statements that are in fact known and acknowledged.
I think there's some value in an "I'll be honest," as a signal that one is being forthright despite a potential cost, with a corresponding appeal to the listener to hear the speaker out. But yeah, when it's an appeal to an imagined silent majority that shit is often not very good.
I'm with you on this one. It's intended as a sort of, "we all know this but don't say it," or similar, but always just comes off as condescending to me. Maybe because it's so often applied to statements that are in fact known and acknowledged.
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I think there's some value in an "I'll be honest," as a signal that one is being forthright despite a potential cost, with a corresponding appeal to the listener to hear the speaker out. But yeah, when it's an appeal to an imagined silent majority that shit is often not very good.