The process by which subgroups export a new taboo/sacredness into the wider culture is fascinating and underexamined.
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@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. -
@sarahdoingthing Much like voting in its objective pointlessness. Or: voting is a very specialized case of the general phenomenon. -
@sarahdoingthing This may be a place where my interest in groups-as-demonic-entities meets your interest in ritual peopling. - 9 more replies
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