"Is a social contagion" and "is caused by a social contagion" aren't semantically distinct at all To any normal person it's the exact same fucking thinghttps://twitter.com/IdiotTracker/status/1375201256017301510 …
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Replying to @arthur_affect
most people also don't realize that social contagion isnt a bad thing. its just a thing that happens
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Replying to @man_ditch
For anything that people aren't trying to stamp out as a disease they just don't use the word "contagion" No one has ever used the term "social contagion" for deciding to go to college or have kids because your friends are doing it
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Replying to @arthur_affect @man_ditch
But I guess it's those mushy-headed cancel-culture humanities majors thinking the words you use matter again Like people pointing out the word "desistance" Jesse loves to use for "not being trans anymore" started out being used for criminals and pedophiles
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Replying to @arthur_affect @man_ditch
Surely someone who started out saying they were cis and then starts saying they're trans "desisted" from one behavior to pick up another, didn't they? Starting out a married straight dude then divorcing your wife to come out as a gay man is "desisting" from all kinds of shit
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But no one EVER uses that word that way, it's OBVIOUSLY a word that in practice means "going from abnormal back to normal" Half of "critical theory" is just training you to notice extremely obvious shit like this
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