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Not sure if this is what's going on here, but I've noticed sometimes isolated communities don't want too much attention and front load these types of things as
by marginalia_nu 4y ago
Not sure if this is what's going on here, but I've noticed sometimes isolated communities don't want too much attention and front load these types of things as scarecrows to keep the general public away.
- daptaq 4y agoThen the question is why bring it up in the first place. If you don't want attention, you avoid these signifiers in public, I'd think?
- marginalia_nu 4y agoYou might also want to find likeminded people.
- Shared404 4y agoSee Also: 9front
- marginalia_nu 4y agoParts of the alt right does the same with its meme sociolect. You'll see frogs and wojaks and hear of soy and cuck and various pills very quickly.
- Shared404 4y agoThis is true. As much as I hate "both sides" discourse[0], it's interesting that I see the same memes in both right and left contexts - I wonder of a creation of a "second language" to discuss divisive politics is enough of a force to spread it, or of it is intentional coopting of another sides language to dilute it. E: [0] HN is not the place for the rest of my feelings on this. Both sides aren't the same is enough to suffice here.