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"A slip of the tongue can easily summon a career-ending mob on Twitter. (Or, at least, it seems that way.)" I understand this concern and I ask you instead- ho

"A slip of the tongue can easily summon a career-ending mob on Twitter. (Or, at least, it seems that way.)" I understand this concern and I ask you instead- how common is this realistically? How much are we potentially following how things feel rather than how they really are? Can we justify how we feel with genuine data about our environment? For example, worrying about a microaggressive joke. Do we have evidence that justifies this worry (ie. this specific joke or a joke similar to this has offended someone)? "But the way progressive culture enforces those values socially is pretty intense. There seems to be little room for human error, personal growth, or misinterpretation." I feel this way about 'normal' culture a lot of the time, honestly, it's just so normalized that no one really notices it without coming off as 'too sensitive', which is itself a cultural enforcement of allowing cultural enforcement. "Progressive culture" seems too harsh because it hasn't been internalized the way "normal" culture has, and so adaptation to a new paradigm requires peer correction. For peer correction in "normal" culture look at schoolyard bullying and children taking on the bigotry of their parents.

munificent 7y ago
> how common is this realistically? I don't know, hence the parenthetical. It's an interesting question about how many doors the police need to actually pound on before sufficient self-policing kicks in that they don't have to anymore. I know for me personally, because I am very sensitive to hurting people's feelings, I am hyper-vigilant about this. Whether the odds of it happening are rare or not, my subjective emotional experience is that I worry about it, which in turn leads me to be a little less of myself. > "Progressive culture" seems too harsh because it hasn't been internalized the way "normal" culture has, and so adaptation to a new paradigm requires peer correction. I agree with this, strongly. If you want to move a culture from X to Y, you have to sort of aim for some point past Y and do a bunch of awkward deliberate calling out when people aren't moving in the right direction. There are so many inertial forces against change that it takes something like that to make any progress. So, in general, I try not to get too worried about how progressive culture makes me uncomfortable. It's supposed to. Growth and progress is always uncomfortable, both at the individual and collective levels.

munificent 7y ago

> how common is this realistically? I don't know, hence the parenthetical. It's an interesting question about how many doors the police need to actually pound on before sufficient self-policing kicks in that they don't have to anymore. I know for me personally, because I am very sensitive to hurting people's feelings, I am hyper-vigilant about this. Whether the odds of it happening are rare or not, my subjective emotional experience is that I worry about it, which in turn leads me to be a little less of myself. > "Progressive culture" seems too harsh because it hasn't been internalized the way "normal" culture has, and so adaptation to a new paradigm requires peer correction. I agree with this, strongly. If you want to move a culture from X to Y, you have to sort of aim for some point past Y and do a bunch of awkward deliberate calling out when people aren't moving in the right direction. There are so many inertial forces against change that it takes something like that to make any progress. So, in general, I try not to get too worried about how progressive culture makes me uncomfortable. It's supposed to. Growth and progress is always uncomfortable, both at the individual and collective levels.