On 201* transformation of "nerd culture". This is excellent. Social Gentrification: https://status451.com/2016/09/15/social-gentrification/ … via @Status451Blog
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Replying to @St_Rev @Status451Blog
I really wish we could do with a little less victim narrative in these matters
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Replying to @allgebrah @Status451Blog
That's the legal tender for these debates, though. What I love about this post is it reverses allegiances.
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Leftist culture warriors are generally anti-gentrification. This pattern-matches in a disruptive way.
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Likely response, ofc: "poor babies losing a tiny bit of privilege, keep crushing them". That's OK, they're bigots.
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Replying to @St_Rev @Status451Blog
my problem w/ victim narrative is that it doesn't have a script for self-improvement - working on one's social skills
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(and this is coming from a literal social retard who was way behind in emotional development and suffered for it)
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(deleted rest of chain because that argument should really be made in long form)
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Replying to @allgebrah
Can't see any of these tweets unless I go to your twitter page. This is ridiculous.
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Replying to @St_Rev
this is interesting because I keep clear of politics near-religiously, the algorithms shouldn't have a problem with me
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also for the record I see your notifications just fine, only oddity was that I saw my own tweets "broken off" the OP in my TL
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