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You make an excellent counterpoint. I think your comment also exposes an ambiguity in the phrase "support the status quo." One meaning is to affirm the status
by DoofusOfDeath 6y ago
You make an excellent counterpoint.
I think your comment also exposes an ambiguity in the phrase "support the status quo."
One meaning is to affirm the status quo as generally acceptable.
Another meaning is to (implicitly) decide that one particular aspect of the status quo falls below the cutoff line of what you have the time or energy to deal with in the moment.
I don't know if conflating the two intentionally is a common occurrence, but I can see how doing so could be used to incite outrage amongst uncritical thinkers.
- ZephyrBlu 6y agoFrom what I have seen, it is extremely common to conflate doing literally anything other than trying to tear the status quo down as supporting it.
- jjoonathan 6y agoYes, and it goes further: activists will sort into tiers of extremism and each tier will frame the less extreme actions of the tiers below them as supporting the status quo. It's the active ingredient in their recruiting pipeline. High tier extremism can't recruit directly from the general population but it can recruit from the tier below by guilt-tripping them for not doing enough. If you don't decide to "support the status quo" at some point, you'll wind up in the deep end.
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