"When years of engagement can be erased in 24 hours because someone points out an uncomfortable power dynamic, there was never really intellectual engagement - just conditional tolerance that evaporated when ideas became inconvenient."

#BurningTree, 2025

https://gist.github.com/burningtree/d4aa172470293bdf2939c993cf48bbd4

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#ContextCollapse #PowerDynamics

I totally support the founding principle of Me Too; exposing men who use political or economic power to avoid normal consequences for the way they treat others with less power. But Me Too pretty quickly starting being used as an excuse for people dunking on their peers, and then morphed into something much darker. A topic Sarah Z explores in this video;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EeCi4CSqtzw

#PublicShaming #CancelCulture #ContextCollapse

"Whenever someone is making accusations towards the beliefs or character of someone else, it’s worth looking into the source to make sure that there isn’t context which mitigates this. No matter how many people you see favoring a particular take on things, it’s possible that there’s a major, unfortunate case of context collapse taking place."

@fluffy, 2022

https://beesbuzz.biz/blog/3449-The-Dangers-of-Context-Collapse

It occurs to me that when folks on the left criticise "cancel culture", this is what we mean.

#ContextCollapse

"A critical thing about #memes: for any #meme to be successful, it needs to be readapted to new contexts. And when it is — literally, that is in the word — the context collpases, right?
But that's how ideas spread. Ideas don't spread if you can't apply them to a new situation. So, in a way, #contextcollapse is inevitable."
@etymology.substack.com talks about the ways #socialmedia #algorithms have accelerated the context collapse that changes the words we use.

https://youtu.be/KpkW8JhqcgY?si=-XLXqTJsWmCHybaY&t=614