"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 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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I think you’re onto something, here.
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I think you are making far too much of a difference between "being" and "saying". Wokeness is performative. You really think people who "say" they're liberal don't mistreat their Latinx domestics?
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