Stop telling me things are impossible that *literally happened* in Taiwan, and South Korea, and Vietnam
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Replying to @arthur_affect @MikePerryavatar
Yeah it’s not like we have completely different cultures or anything. Say, do everyday sick people (like having a cold) wear masks in those places?
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Replying to @guardpilot @MikePerryavatar
My family is from Taiwan, and I am not here for stupid-ass Orientalist arguments about how Asians are a completely different subspecies of human who take naturally to subservient submission because they're all Borg drones at heart
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People in Taiwan are just as capable of being selfish, shitty, stubborn, etc. as anyone else But they respond rationally to incentives, and they respond to their environment, to social pressure and to signals they receive from leaders That's what a leader's job is
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There's tons of Americans, especially when the outbreak first began, who were rightly TERRIFIED of infection and going to ABSURD lengths to avoid it All the memes about compulsively sanitizing your hands every five minutes, bleaching your groceries, etc.
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The American "national spirit of cooperation" WORE OFF over time, as people naturally got frustrated and pissed off because there was no central coordination so the half-assed measures we put in place didn't actually do anything
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That's how toxic cultures develop, both on the large scale and the very small If you've been in a dysfunctional workplace or household where nothing ever gets done, it's usually not because everyone there is just "culturally lazy" and "genetically selfish" It's a system failure
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The apartment where literally nobody ever does the fucking dishes isn't because doing dishes is all that hard, or that nobody who lives there is genetically capable of doing dishes
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It's because there's *no reward* for being the one who steps up to do the dishes if other people get to free-ride off you It's because when you decide the sink is totally fucking disgusting and try to start doing the dishes you realize you can't make a dent in the load yourself
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We can argue about "American culture" and about the Constitution all day, I don't care I contend that if we'd started this crisis by having an *organized and systemic* response, the vast majority of people would've complied even if it was theoretically open to legal challenge
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And that maybe the current "anti-masker culture" we're stuck with was "inevitable" in the broad sense of the term, but it's inevitable because we have leaders in power who would inevitably abuse their power to intentionally cultivate and encourage this response
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Yeah, I was gonna say, this is less about culture and more about how we have a handful of extremists with huge platforms who are indulged by our media and social gatekeepers, giving them outsize influence. We have the anti-masker-culture because those people WANTED it to exist.
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Why’d it exist in 1918 then?
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