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Nothing to hide is a premise based on most people being terrified of confrontation. It's an intentional staging to force confrontation or capitulation. When pe
by adventured 4y ago
Nothing to hide is a premise based on most people being terrified of confrontation. It's an intentional staging to force confrontation or capitulation.
When people say they have nothing to hide, in most cases what they're actually saying is that they're afraid of the confrontation implicit in the opposite response (I'm going to forcefully argue for a right to privacy). They're telling you that they're a coward.
- corsac 4y agoThe more I think about this, the more it rings true. Implicit in the phrase "I have nothing to hide" is an assumption that everything is open to inspection by default, and concealment is deviance. In most situations, nobody assumes anything close to that. When they do, they're taking a supine position, like an animal submissively exposing its belly.