"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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Replying to @Noahpinion
i dunno, after meeting some tumblr people, competitive wokeness/competitive victimhood does seem to be a thing with that crowd. though, super niche and the likely exception rather than the norm.
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Replying to @guacamolebio
I'm not sure whether I've met those people or not...but I very rarely meet someone who seems fake...
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Replying to @Noahpinion
the people i met skewed really young and spent most of their time online. i think some of it is that identity-building and identity-seeking that young people naturally need, but in a very public way that seems kind of punishing.
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Replying to @guacamolebio
And it didn't seem more like the team-joining/team-building exercise I described?
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Replying to @Noahpinion
some of it was definitely that, but there was also occasionally what felt to me like power-jockeying as to whose take was the 'most valid' or something. like people implying other peoples takes were wrong because they weren't marginalized "enough".
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Replying to @guacamolebio @Noahpinion
again, most of these people were just dumb teenagers on the internet. i dunno, i can empathize with it, but the public nature of those things concerns me because it feels like it's something hard for you to 'take back'.
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Replying to @guacamolebio
I think one problem with our political discourse is that the modal thing you read is now written by a dumb teenager on the internet.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
i'm so glad the internet wasn't nearly this widespread when i was a teenager. i'd probably actually die from anxiety if i knew that someone was being influenced by the uneducated views of high-school-me.
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I'd probably be just as cranky and ridiculous as I am now... ;-)
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