A lot of social advice amounts to “round problems down”. Live and let live, turn the other cheek, don’t take things personally, etc. If you avoid escalation, you avoid destructive feedback loops. The concept of microaggressions as endorsed by the modern left does the opposite.
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Replying to @drethelin
hard disagree. being aware of the microaggression pattern allows you to avoid wearing down those around you (which inevitably leads to escalation)
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Replying to @Tipsycaek @drethelin
a full dignity culture take on microaggressions would be (i) be aware and try not to throw them, (ii) if recipient don't escalate I think we used to have both of these norms
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we very clearly did if you look at manuals on manners and politeness microaggression hyper awareness
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Replying to @bitemyapp @eigenrobot and
this is partly a class warfare thing, complaining about boorish and uncouth poors that haven't been housebroken
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hmmm politeness as specific behavioral prescriptions vs politeness as flexible stance aiming maintaining comity and personal comfort the former can be used to bludgeon, contradicting the second case
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Replying to @eigenrobot @bitemyapp and
draft idea: lower status norms more likely to resemble honor culture, people raised low-status more likely to have belligerent responses to perceived slights as a locally-helpful behavioral adaptation that performs badly out of sample
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yes, I've noted you can hash out conflicts more honestly when poor.
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Positive aspect for sure! Although people raised with a given set of norms will usually be able to navigate those norms to communicate effectively I bet. Would guess problems mostly arrive when people try to work outside their native social languages, in any direction.
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from experience yea, I grew up poor and now navigate middle / middle upper sensibility
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