Poll: The politics of respectability is primarily about not wanting to seem ________
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this is a really great question (or it’s worded poorly & people are glomming onto the first element that they want to answer... unclear yet, though replies appear to be projected through personal experience rather than evaluated re: closeness to principles)
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uncultured- not wanting to be punished for deviance from the norm as established by the centers of power and authority
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It probably differs from community to community. I (and I think 99% of the people I associate with), "respectability" would be not being seen as cruel. I'd love to think that's universal, but I suppose it isn't.
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It's always about not wanting to be different...
You can add a detail gloss (it's about *differentiating from* the mob ala
slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/22/rig
) but that's just a detail, a figure/ground reversal.
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