owl flight on Nostr: Having used social media for a couple of days, it's dawning on me that some of the ...

Having used social media for a couple of days, it's dawning on me that some of the dumber pathologies of the woke era actually reflect distorted expectations cultivated by people through their social media use.

In particular, the idea of "safe spaces" simply mirrors the ability to restrict access to online spaces through blocking / muting participants, and demanding such safe spaces reflects a desire to carry this ability over into offline physical life.

Similarly, the idea of "trigger warnings" (e.g. on university lectures) reflects a desire to implement in offline life an analogue of click-through content warnings on social media posts or websites.

And "deplatforming" is the most obvious, reflecting a desire to control people's access to places where they can speak publicly in the same way in which people's access to online platforms can be restricted.

There is something very lazy and childish about the desire to carry these impoverished structures that are really just reflections of computer user interface design into offline life and to restrict offline human interactions to such structures with which one is familiar. It reveals an embarrassing lack of education, experience, and life competence, which is of course why it draws such ridicule.