@St_Rev we should collaborate on this - you write tweets and have the ideas and I'll write it up with lots of unnecessary words (serious)
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@sarahdoingthing If only I had anything to add! I'm thinking in particular of today's "hanging tree" to-do though. -
@sarahdoingthing To me, that connotes puritans, Robert E. Howard, Clint Eastwood. But it seems like it's become a symbol of racism recently. -
@sarahdoingthing It takes root in a subgroup, becomes an established metonym (nooses prominent in fake-racism incidents at colleges)... -
@sarahdoingthing ...then there's a flashpoint where the new sub-meaning intersects the old meaning in the wider culture, and a fight starts. -
@sarahdoingthing It's putatively about Offense, but that's an inside-view understanding of a basic fight over cultural hegemony. -
@sarahdoingthing Silliest examples we laugh off ('niggardly', reading books about the KKK) but the more serious cases less noticed. -
@sarahdoingthing Lots of circulating memes are, substantially, abt battlespace preparation for these fights. Punching up vs. punching down.
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@St_Rev meta intra cultural inoculation -
@KalishJantzen@St_Rev it really isn't. The quickness which the dominant group affixes itself as an ongoing victim on the other hand...
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