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So they will treat the following two tweets differently? • down with people who believe X! • long live people who believe not-X! The line between negativity
by gnicholas 4y ago
So they will treat the following two tweets differently?
• down with people who believe X!
• long live people who believe not-X!
The line between negativity and positivity is just a matter of framing.
- kuramitropolis 4y agoSpot on. The terms "negativity" and "positivity" are basically tools for abuse.
- gnicholas 4y agoYou mean abuse by twitter, since it introduces subjectivity in the decision making process?
- kuramitropolis 4y agoBy anyone who uses them as the loaded terms that they are. Oh, how I would hope that "positivity" and "negativity" would be understood as relating to position and negation, like in your example! But in practical usage (as in "stay positive" or "we don't want that kind of negativity around here") they're semantic stopsigns for silencing voices that express unhappiness. I think the term for a culture of only accepting expressions of happiness as valid, with the goal of suppressing constructive disagreement, is "toxic positivity".