There are a bunch of behaviours that I find interesting to observe because they are so foreign to me What’s been on my mind is when people make an ingroup symbol their *primary* identity marker. eg using a celebrity as their DP - or a sports team, or a religion, or a flag
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I can understand using signifiers as *secondary* identity markers - it’s useful to give people some context about you - but making it the *primary* marker is something I find odd, even sometimes suspicious, untrustworthy. It’s a kind of self-dissolution, and it’s culty-adjacent
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Replying to @visakanv
Since I joined Twitter I’ve come to assume that a person is more “legit” if they have emoji after their name. Especially if they’re in business. I don’t know how this happened, it’s just pattern recognition
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