@FormerlyFormer I just wonder how many are natural outliers and how many adopt the pose to justify their need for attention?
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Replying to @AliceTeller
@AliceTeller@FormerlyFormer Natural outliers don't form neat, well-identified communities of belief. I call it sangha privilege.1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@AliceTeller Actually, natural outliers in past were *still attached* to particular nuclear families/community. So it worked.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @FormerlyFormer
@St_Rev@AliceTeller IOW, gays weren't in "the gay community". Were someone's uncle, brother, son. Still fundamentally attached to family.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FormerlyFormer
@FormerlyFormer@AliceTeller Eh, I wouldn't romanticize that kind of situation too much. "When in the course of human events" and all that.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@FormerlyFormer@AliceTeller Everybody's struggling to find a place to fit, some people have it a lot harder. My point is more...1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@FormerlyFormer@AliceTeller Community *is* a privilege, a very potent one. "Alternative" community is needed for some. But...1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @St_Rev
@FormerlyFormer@AliceTeller ...you find one, you finally fit in, great, guess what: you're now one of the privileged. Grow up.3 replies 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@AliceTeller We are being balkanized as human beings, to any and every alternative other than identifying as extended family.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @FormerlyFormer
@FormerlyFormer@AliceTeller With one overarching metaidentity feeding off all the alternatives. Progressive uniformity-in-diversity.1 reply 0 retweets 1 like
@FormerlyFormer @AliceTeller Being a freak/spaz/scapegoat/etc. *sucks*. When it becomes aspirational, something's extremely wrong.
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Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@AliceTeller Yes. When "oppression" becomes a tradeable coin of social cachet, you get a very bizarrely dysfunctional society.0 replies 0 retweets 1 likeThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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