another thing about twitter, there's such an automatic tendency to place people on that little coordinate system in your head. what's their take on that? what group do they fall in on this subject? you want them organized nice and neatly into boxes. i do this, everybody does this.
it's a reflexive process. you see people in boxes and you start behaving accordingly. tribal lines are drawn up. declare your loyalty at every turn or be excommunicated.
sometimes you feel you are expected to lie, to concede your world view to the cause. lying reinforces loyalty of course. it's a method of fortifying the ranks.
it starts out innocuously. adding nuance is pedantery, useless. why are you undermining the message with useless details?
but then it grows...
the bigger the lie, the higher the sunk cost of comitting to it. sunk costs = psychological investment = eschewing doubt and skepticism.
I find it weird to be asked to have an opinion.Putting aside how shit the show is - and it is shit - where do people stand on this? Do you agree with taking it down?
an excellent, directly on-topic piece by a Black British writer. just read it, he says it all better and more thoroughly than I could
What Black America Means to Europe
It was a real shock seeing blacked-up white guys out in public when I lived in the Netherlands a few years ago, let me tell you.Zwarte Piet - Netherlands' blackface Santa Claus analogue - is trending on Dutch Twitter rn
Putting aside how shit the show is - and it is shit - where do people stand on this? Do you agree with taking it down?
My main reaction is feeling really old - things that I thought were a few years back are actually from 15 years ago.
I don't really care about Little Britain, but then I do find myself wondering where the line's drawn. Is everything which can be deemed offensive going to be removed? What'll my opinion be if something I actually find valuable receives the same treatment?