It is in common use for behaviors and conditions that people believe are negative and seek to combat
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Replying to @BlamKaboom @mallweasel and
The term "social contagion" is very obviously a pejorative term in practice and has been for the vast majority of the history of its use Anyone who denies that is lying
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
One suspects if people started calling Singal's "philosophies" and ideologies a social contagion, implying it is a harmful disease in the fabric of society, he'd start being a pissier, more hypocritical little toad than usual.
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Replying to @JobModeSD @BlamKaboom and
I actually strongly believe that TERFism is a social contagion and I'd be happy to write a paper about it and I doubt these people would be all sanguine about it if I did
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JobModeSD and
Part of the obvious problem with trying to claim the term "social contagion" is "neutral" is that it's basically never used to describe behaviors the speaker thinks are rational/normal or beliefs the speaker thinks are correct
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JobModeSD and
So they talk about it like there's such a thing as an "absence of social contagion" when obviously there isn't The Satanic Panic being a social contagion that "surged and receded" in the 80s As opposed to being overtaken by a second, more powerful contagion
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JobModeSD and
There's one idea, "believing in Satanic ritual abuse", that clearly spread by social contagion, and a second one, "disbelieving in Satanic ritual abuse", that spread far more effectively, to the point that it's now the dominant one
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JobModeSD and
True ideas spread by "social contagion" just as well as false ideas - indeed under ideal circumstances they spread better A belief spreading by social contagion has no bearing on whether that belief is true
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Replying to @arthur_affect @JobModeSD and
This feels like the original meaning of "memes"
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It is, it's another instance of analogizing ideas to living things (a much older concept than people think) And like the word "meme" the "neutral" use of it is completely boring and obvious so no one cares, it's only an interesting term when used rhetorically
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