The process by which subgroups export a new taboo/sacredness into the wider culture is fascinating and underexamined.
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@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 right! I saw a bunch of topiary monkeys hanging (from hands) in a tree in Florida outside a trader joe's, could have witch-hunted! -
@sarahdoingthing Barely-credible, hallucinated comparison of Obama to apes/monkeys cause for violent outrage. Bush? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smirking%20chimp … -
@sarahdoingthing It's DIFFERENT because of REASONS satire is only allowed to punch UP not DOWN and Obama, POTUS, is oppressed -
@sarahdoingthing Comparisons of black people to primates strongly tabooed in a subculture, meaningless in wider culture. Flashpoint. -
@sarahdoingthing Another example: kinda everything pivoting on the term 'Islamophobia'. -
@sarahdoingthing Whole lot of classical liberal metacultural norms are about keeping the peace in these potential conflicts. But, lol, gone. -
@sarahdoingthing One remarkable thing is how much vigor people put into forwarding/resisting novel taboos/sacralities. -
@sarahdoingthing Effort is wildly out of proportion to any possible gain to the individual, but it's meat and drink to group-consciousness. - 11 more replies
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