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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We are in fact talking about the concept of "peer contagion", an attempt to give a highfalutin gloss to the term "peer pressure", and one that is obviously and undeniably pejorative in most of its uses
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Doubly so while we’re in the middle of an actual fucking contagion. Also, hi there, trans adult here. My life would have been a lot happier if I had had the awareness to recognize that I was queer and trans in my youth instead of figuring it out at 30.
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