@sarahdoingthing To me, that connotes puritans, Robert E. Howard, Clint Eastwood. But it seems like it's become a symbol of racism recently.
@sarahdoingthing Much like voting in its objective pointlessness. Or: voting is a very specialized case of the general phenomenon.
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@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 -
@NineBandedBooks@sarahdoingthing I haven't done anything longform in six months, my brain is broken -
@NineBandedBooks Well https://twitter.com/sarahdoingthing/status/567436275297185792 … although I think probably@sarahdoingthing + Rev < Sarah but if she's interested -
@NineBandedBooks@sarahdoingthing Right now trying to think of other examples. The big big big one is the fight over the image of Muhammad. -
@NineBandedBooks@sarahdoingthing Books can and have been written about just that one. But it seems like a ubiquitous process. - 2 more replies
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