The process by which subgroups export a new taboo/sacredness into the wider culture is fascinating and underexamined.
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@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. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing You should work this out in long form. -
@NineBandedBooks That's what@sarahdoingthing suggested, so I am just throwing out stream of consciousness tweets per suggestion - 7 more replies
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@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Historically it was commonplace. There was no stigma to it, however. -
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@sarahdoingthing I remember the Howard Cosell "look at that monkey" fracas. *I* didn't get the racial context at the time. -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Yeah, and it was common for animation and drawings to depict blacks as monkeys, and that wasn't seen as racist -
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Especially in regards to black infants. The stigma came as a result of NAACP agitation.
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