In social activism, I sometimes see claims that performative, passive support is actively good (“raising awareness”, “shifting the Overton window”) and sometimes that it’s net harmful (“greenwashing”, “corporate PR”, “slacktivism”).
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A related issue is whether a wave of inflated hype around a technology is net good, bad, or neutral for the underlying fundamental progress of that technology.
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I sometimes see aggressively unfriendly tactics used to scare off “casuals”. Some people see casuals as obviously toxic; some people see alienating them as obviously stupid; I think there’s got to be contextual nuances here.
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