exaggeratingly avoiding eye contact and making a stupid mouth expression is what overly dramatic/narcissistic people do to emphasize the hotness of their take, the sheer disagreeableness they presume their words or actions have

it’s like “sorry not sorry” as an expression. it is pretentiousness incarnate. i think it’s more of an adult pop-culture and person-with-radical-political-beliefs thing than a white person thing, it’s the result of watching way too much american reality tv