The Art of Woke / Wokeonomics
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Are you arguing that people are, in effect, inventing reasons to be annoyed at statements like those in this table ("where are you from" etc.) in order to raise their own status?
Not exactly — I think "being annoyed" is mostly not within our control, and it's not hard for me to see why some of these comments would annoy someone, even make them feel subtly the way the table suggests. But resolving this via public shaming is a new & IMO harmful development.
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Ah, that makes sense! I go back & forth on your latter statement. I get the downside (e.g. Twitter rage/hatemobs --> less open expression), but I think arguments like this don't give sufficient attention to the upside case
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Specifically, 1) how much of social progress depends on using 'public shaming' as a tool - arguably a lot; 2) the acceptability of saying X in public influences how many people hold opinion X; these things can snowball/compound, sometimes in bad ways e.g. white nationalism.
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