premise: They , too , can read and write , of course , but their solecisms , barbarisms , and vulgarisms call for rebuke , and what better rebuke than to treat them as if they did not belong at all'to condemn them figuratively to the outer darkness of the unlettered and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true and true is true ?
hypothesis: Treating them poorly as if they 're unlettered lets us feel better about ourselves and our superiority .