Social opprobrium is a powerful tool available to everyone, and the reason that so many privileged people are advising against it is not because it’s uncivil but because it’s effective.
Or unjust society uses social opprobrium against marginalized people every day, and it always has.
That’s why, for example, gay teens have such a high suicide rate. And so on.
That’s why, for example, gay teens have such a high suicide rate. And so on.
The use of social opprobrium by overprivileged people against underprivileged people is an appropriate use of social opprobrium.
Our society has no instinctive reaction to stop that inappropriate use, though. Our society often calls such use “traditional values.”
Our society has no instinctive reaction to stop that inappropriate use, though. Our society often calls such use “traditional values.”
The demand to stop such unjust use of social opprobrium is referred to as “political correctness,” and is seen as a dangerous threat.
That’s how you can tell that our society is unjust, by the way.
That’s how you can tell that our society is unjust, by the way.
The use of social opprobrium against powerful people who are actively harming others, or who are tacitly supporting such harm, is very very very appropriate.
We should do it all the time.
Not because we are vindictive. Because it works.
We should do it all the time.
Not because we are vindictive. Because it works.
Powerful people are terrified of its application against themselves, and you can tell by their reaction to just a little bit of it.
I suspect the reason you hear overprivileged people making the point that social opprobrium doesn’t work, is they know it works so amazingly well.
I suspect the reason you hear overprivileged people making the point that social opprobrium doesn’t work, is they know it works so amazingly well.
The Republican Party has fully embraced white supremacy and every form of bigotry in service of greed. Their embrace of a would-be tyrant threatens global stability, and their wilfull denial of climate change threatens human existence
We should tell them that every chance we get
We should tell them that every chance we get
All these emboldened racists didn’t suddenly become racist. They’ve been quietly racist whole time. They feared the social cost. Now they don’t, is what they’ve been telling us.
It hurts to be shunned.
Good.
It hurts to be shunned.
Good.
I grew up in a time when the racists had to wear hoods when they went out in public, and those who opposed them didn’t have to.
A trend from inappropriate to appropriate social opprobrium did that.
I don’t like the reversal. Do you?
Shout at the bastards in public.
A trend from inappropriate to appropriate social opprobrium did that.
I don’t like the reversal. Do you?
Shout at the bastards in public.
White people, even impoverished white people, access privilege when using racist social opprobrium against black people, even wealthy black people. That’s the appeal of Trump to racist impoverished white people.
I have no idea about Antifa and a “mail guy.”
I have no idea about Antifa and a “mail guy.”
Just in case it’s not clear, the “appropriate” in the first sentence should be “inappropriate.”
#argh
#argh
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