They have high salience because the real-life usage of the term is overwhelmingly historically pejorative
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Replying to @exanteStephanie @arthur_affect and
The word contagion has very bad conotations. Social contagion has even worse. And you can trace it ti very bad things,like literal Nazis and McCarthyism. In Nazi ideology, The Final Solution was an attempt to "solve" the problem of social contagion and contamination,for example.
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Replying to @exanteStephanie @arthur_affect and
Again, neutral in education doesn't mean neutral in journalism or neutral for the rest of society. They couldn 't say "Latest viral trend amongs teenagers", or "Latest fad" or something. They used the word contagion.
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Replying to @exanteStephanie @John_McDosh and
For my part, the term I would prefer to "contagion" is "education" or "awareness" If you think that terminology is biased ("More kids are transitioning due to greater awareness") but the "contagion" phrasing isn't, well, ask yourself why
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Replying to @exanteStephanie @John_McDosh and
Wait, if I become aware of something because a friend told me about it rather than getting it from an officially sanctioned curriculum then I can't use the term "awareness" for it? This is news to me
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Yeah no The sentence "More kids are transitioning than ever due to increased awareness" is a perfectly understandable sentence
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