I guess it depends what you mean by taking seriously. I would say Émile is (correctly) not being taken seriously in the sense of expecting their criticisms to have merit?
Yeah—based on the use of “consider someone a malicious actor” in the previous sentence, I read it as ~ “dismiss the person as a bad-faith actor who is trolling and ignore them”
I guess it depends what you mean by taking seriously. I would say Émile is (correctly) not being taken seriously in the sense of expecting their criticisms to have merit?
Yeah—based on the use of “consider someone a malicious actor” in the previous sentence, I read it as ~ “dismiss the person as a bad-faith actor who is trolling and ignore them”