It could be a mistake, or it could be an attempt to leave room for plausible deniability. There is something in his category war that doesn’t quite add up. I don’t know what the solution is; one of my main hypotheses is, as you say, that he is making some extremely large mistakes (not just wrt managing people’s emotions, also object-level mistakes), but another is that cancel culture will punish him too much if he engages in fully transparent discourse, and therefore some things that look like mistakes are actually intentional to obscure what’s going on.
It could be a mistake, or it could be an attempt to leave room for plausible deniability. There is something in his category war that doesn’t quite add up. I don’t know what the solution is; one of my main hypotheses is, as you say, that he is making some extremely large mistakes (not just wrt managing people’s emotions, also object-level mistakes), but another is that cancel culture will punish him too much if he engages in fully transparent discourse, and therefore some things that look like mistakes are actually intentional to obscure what’s going on.
Also to some extent it’s just correct. If people are emotionally manipulating him, he has to drop out of managing their emotions.