Most readers of this publication are hopefully well aware of the important sociological concept known as defining deviancy down. This concept posits that if deviant, marginal behavior is not properly sanctioned by stigmatization and other negative sanctions, including, in some instances, civil and even criminal liability, society loses its ability to regard that behavior as deviant. Over time such behavior becomes mainstream, and what was more deviant, at times even unthinkable, then becomes deviant, but nonetheless exhibited on the fringes of behavior in that society. This is complemented by two important phenomena. The first is the Durkheim Constant, which posits that every society has a fixed quotient of deviant behavior. This means an Amish community or Quaker settlement on one hand and Sodom and Gomorrah or modern San Francisco will have vastly different norms and mores, but the quotient of behavior each society regards as deviant will be the same.
Perhaps we are seeing a major shift in the metapolitics of "racist" and "anti-Semite" where whites don't have to cower defensively at having these labels attached -- "Please, please, how can I prove to you how much a love black people and Jews"? Instead. We go on the offensive -- "I can give you an encyclopedia of what's wrong with blacks and Jews. I don't care what you call me. Gaza or Detroit anyone?"
Interesting perspective. I've taken a slightly different angle in my article, not to counter signal the collectivist solidarity, but to illuminate how degrading the whole discourse has become.
Perhaps we are seeing a major shift in the metapolitics of "racist" and "anti-Semite" where whites don't have to cower defensively at having these labels attached -- "Please, please, how can I prove to you how much a love black people and Jews"? Instead. We go on the offensive -- "I can give you an encyclopedia of what's wrong with blacks and Jews. I don't care what you call me. Gaza or Detroit anyone?"
Well done.
Good article. Deserves more attention.
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You got it, sir.
Liberalism is the antichrist.
Interesting perspective. I've taken a slightly different angle in my article, not to counter signal the collectivist solidarity, but to illuminate how degrading the whole discourse has become.
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