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Mati Roy's avatar

I posted this on my Facebook wall recently, and it made me think of this article:

(among) the most common arguments I hear against the pronoun "ze"- "he/she" helps distinguish people more / is less ambiguous- "they" already exists, and even if it mixes the plural / singular, the added ambiguity is not big dealAm I the only centrist?(source)

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akarlin's avatar

Extremists tend to be contrarians, who are the sort of people who would be exploring extra-Overtown Window space in the first place. There is also a chicken and egg question with respect to many of them - much of their "extremist" signaling, for instance, developed as a result of their explorations and the combination of positive feedback from fellow contrarian explorers + hostility from "centered" normies. Another consideration, of course, positions that were not previously particularly extremist become so due to general social drift. The normies prodded into exploring the liminal spaces are likely to scuttle back to safety at this point.

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