... 'Signaling' is the way people attempt to micro-engineer desired conversational community. Realistic to acknowledge that from the start.
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Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Perhaps what is needed is a distinction between between signaling affiliation and signaling submission.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller ... except that everyone interprets affiliations they disapprove of as despicable acts of submission.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Not always. Signaling affiliation with the South is seen as a willful refusal to disavow evil. Signaling PC always looks craven2 replies 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller While on your side (he signals frantically) the PC crew do often sincerely think they're just hanging out with friends.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Hanging out with friends who demand submission to the creed as the price of admission. Sort of like Islam.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller But IF it was just a matter of private discrimination, rather than a totalitarian socio-cultural police operation ...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @Outsideness
@AliceTeller ... it would simply be another expression of diverse social preference, wouldn't it? ...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @Outsideness
@AliceTeller ... "If you don't love Lena Dunham, you're not really our type." I mean, OK (surely), that's functional in both directions.1 reply 1 retweet 1 like -
Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness Not all groups demand the same level of group think.1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes
@AliceTeller Sure, but to advocate for the Prince of Darkness just a little, there are lots of tight in-groups on 'our' side too.
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Replying to @Outsideness
@Outsideness@AliceTeller When fools stop pretending abt muhfeel we can expect there to be much more consensus abt a need for transgression.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @KalishJantzen
@KalishJantzen@Outsideness@AliceTeller madness only fun till it become dysfunctional. define the rules of response to pressure or else.0 replies 0 retweets 1 like
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