The process by which subgroups export a new taboo/sacredness into the wider culture is fascinating and underexamined.
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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.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @St_Rev
@sarahdoingthing To me, that connotes puritans, Robert E. Howard, Clint Eastwood. But it seems like it's become a symbol of racism recently.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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@sarahdoingthing It takes root in a subgroup, becomes an established metonym (nooses prominent in fake-racism incidents at colleges)...2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @sarahdoingthing
@sarahdoingthing Barely-credible, hallucinated comparison of Obama to apes/monkeys cause for violent outrage. Bush? http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=smirking%20chimp …1 reply 0 retweets 2 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@sarahdoingthing It's DIFFERENT because of REASONS satire is only allowed to punch UP not DOWN and Obama, POTUS, is oppressed2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @St_Rev
@sarahdoingthing Comparisons of black people to primates strongly tabooed in a subculture, meaningless in wider culture. Flashpoint.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Historically it was commonplace. There was no stigma to it, however.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@autonomousHBD @sarahdoingthing I remember the Howard Cosell "look at that monkey" fracas. *I* didn't get the racial context at the time.
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Replying to @St_Rev
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Yeah, and it was common for animation and drawings to depict blacks as monkeys, and that wasn't seen as racist1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @IHateStapler
@St_Rev@sarahdoingthing Especially in regards to black infants. The stigma came as a result of NAACP agitation.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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