If you said some *specific phenomenon* could be attributed to social contagion then yes, you would be saying that
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
If I said "People dyeing their hair bright colors is a result of social contagion among schoolchildren" then I would be saying people with brightly colored hair "were a contagion", by any reasonable understanding of that language
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Replying to @arthur_affect @BlamKaboom and
Which would be, in fact, a shitty thing to say But not nearly as consequential a thing to say as saying it about being trans, because hair color is much less central to identity than gender, and because there isn't already a deeply ingrained societal hatred of dyed hair
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