The whole concept of "taking to the streets" is this idea that we have to physically live together and share space, that you can't just pretend other people don't exist if we stand in the road where you drive to work or go shopping and yell at you Virtual spaces change thathttps://twitter.com/gwensnyderPHL/status/1299370657076187136 …
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And that is appealing -- especially for those of us who've had to deal with harassment, catcalling, stalking, who've ever been afraid to go outside It's also really scary
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Imagine a world where everyone who didn't give a shit really could just say "Mute
#BlackLivesMatter
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Hell, in our atomized society where tons of people live in cloistered suburbs and exurbs we were already halfway there, before COVID-19Show this thread -
It's why you see this escalation, protesters yelling at people dining inside of restaurants not to ignore them This sense that it's getting easier and easier to just ignore people
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It always hits me that this requires that people you don’t want to interact with be effectively disposable/negligible impact to a) you and b) everyone you’d otherwise see tell of them through Which is unspeakably naive for eg my use case
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Makes me want separate language for describing “people you don’t want to interact with (intrusive/superfluous)” and “people you don’t want to interact with (load-bearing)” so people can understand when they’re effectively saying “just block your current roommate lmao”
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