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    1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      what if https://twitter.com/polotek/status/1353902811868618758 …pic.twitter.com/0JgKqR5lBS

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    2. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      for those asking Guess culture is the use of telepathy to communicate efficiently Ask culture people are unable to do this and resort to cumbersome explicit word salad which is crass to Guessers, but relatively open to outsidershttps://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theatlantic.com/amp/article/340891/ …

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    3. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      im personally a guess culture supremacist but it does require a certain cultural homogeneity to work and is fairly unfriendly to outsiders who dont know how to V I B E i dont think the quoted thread is crazy

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    4. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      that said OP is missing out on massive variation across white people which is typical whenever coastal urbanites and non-white people talk about white people which is fine but also a pretty dumb failure mode when modeling the outgroup

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    5. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      the best thing ta nehisi coates ever wrote was a piece where he was expressing delight and amazement at discovering that some "white" names are higher or lower status than others a brief effulgent moment where he recognized heterogeneity in a large body of people unlike himself

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    6. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26

      eigenrobot Retweeted eigenrobot

      further reading about white people in the replies herehttps://twitter.com/eigenrobot/status/1271603342410518528?s=19 …

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      oh idea in the interest of racial Comity, an invitation for all ppl of Color I am a white person! AMA about white people
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    7. Toph‏Verified account @toph_bbq Jan 26
      Replying to @eigenrobot

      I also really... don't know how I feel about the stated premise of "white people = guessers, PoC = askers" because in my experience there are a lot of Asian countries (most notably Japan prob) where the guess culture is amped up a significant amount

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    8. Toph‏Verified account @toph_bbq Jan 26
      Replying to @toph_bbq @eigenrobot

      My personal take is that vibing with other guessers is sick, but having the capability to ask when push comes to shove is refreshing, and ultimately we would all be happier if the guessers would respect and try to understand the askers and vice versa /shrug

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      eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26
      Replying to @toph_bbq

      no I agree with all of this--had specifically not meant to imply that Guess culture is exclusively white. Japanese culture is often held up as a canonical example although I have no special knowledge there

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        1. eigenrobot‏ @eigenrobot Jan 26
          Replying to @eigenrobot @toph_bbq

          I think being able to context switch ask/guess mode is challenging for people of either background, and getting it down is an important skill for basic functioning in any public space.

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        2. Toph‏Verified account @toph_bbq Jan 26
          Replying to @eigenrobot

          o yea to be clear the thing I was saying was about the tweet you quoted, not anything you said

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        3. Toph‏Verified account @toph_bbq Jan 26
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          Also I did live in Japan for a year and think it is strongly guess but I ALSO do think it has a really hard language and every other foreigner I met never got remotely good enough at Japanese to read any nuance, so, there's that too lolz

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