"Competitive wokeness", like "virtue signaling" and "preference falsification", seems to be something people on the right say in order to pretend that people on the left don't really believe what they claim to believe.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1050424810591936512 …
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I think that most online wokeness is expression of real grievances that people had been holding in for a long time, and that it's social media, not peer pressure, that causes those expressions to be over-dramatic and exaggerated. cc
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I guess I’m confused why you would draw a line between “social media” and “peer pressure”, as if the latter wasn’t a dominant factor in the former... isn’t peer pressure *amplified* by social media? You might not care what you say to 5 people, but 5000...
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5 people are your peers, 5000 people are not
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I think you're confusing "friends" with "peers", as well as underestimating how much human beings care about what other people think of them, especially when those people are seen as part of the same peer group (which, again, is not the same as one's circle of friends)
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"one belonging to the same societal group especially based on age, grade, or status" 5000 people can definitely be your peers... even 50,000 or 5 millionhttps://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/peer
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I understand your confusion though... prior to the advent of social media, most people weren't interacting with that many of their peers. But this is exactly the dynamic that social media has changed, enabling communication with much larger numbers of people from our peer group.
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In 1988, it would be crazy to think that a random teenager could easily broadcast a message to five hundred other teenagers and get immediate responses. Thirty years later, any teenager with a large enough following on Twitter is doing just that on a regular basis.
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They'll shut up if they directly disagree with the prevailing view. But if they weakly agree with the prevailing view they're going to be more likely to be vocal about it and might convince themselves to endorse a stronger version. Hence competitive wokeness.
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Hmm, maybe! Hard to say without some psych experiments. But I have to say I doubt it, just based on personal experience. I've been accused of competitive wokeness, yet I've never knowingly exaggerated my own beliefs or positions (usually I tone them down).
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And I think I'm not a huge raging flaming SJW. I'm kind of a moderate, milquetoasty SJW.
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You have a stronger contrarian streak than the average blogger/pundit.
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Ha. All my time spent defending the conventional wisdom in the pages of Bloomberg, and you still think I'm a contrarian... ;-)
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I think outside of a tiny group of commentators/thinkers, most people don't have particularly firm views and can be persuaded by what people they like around them think
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I've read people tend to answer surveys with more liberal answers if the survey taker is a young woman. But that's about all. Honestly I have trouble believing that people really believe everyone left of them who disagrees with them is lying. Why would someone think that
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Also studies show groups make more extreme decisions than privately. But that applies to caucuses vs secret ballot, to people bullied into agreeing. To take that and say all these people arguing are just signalling is disingenuous.
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And DC politics is just far to the right of people with white collar jobs in almost any industry, but especially anything creative, due to age and demographics alone. You'd need a fancy theory to explain why creative industries weren't socially liberal. This seems dog bites man.
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