Since I believe the piece of writing is satirical, I feel Sedaris made the choice to do so because it definitely gives an alternative perspective than stating society needs a change as far as judgments go. He first makes us feel like idiots (in a good way!) by seeming at first to be in attune with how society as a whole instantly stereotype people based on how they dress, what they say, and their actions. Then he adds a small paragraph towards the end about how it could very well be an internal insecurity that we release externally by talking about other people so that we no longer feel insecure since we have found someone else that seems worse off.
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This might be a good writerly choice to focus on for your essay. What that would mean for you is to find the moments in the text that led you to this interpretation--those specific moments where he says something in a certain way. (Because satire isn't often blatant.)
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