implicit gatekeeping

This note last modified September 1, 2024

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slang and manners are quick ways people can tell you aren’t part of a community and gatekeep you out of it.

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morality as a social proxy
- Similarly to expressivism, I think a lot of statements of morality are a sort of implicit gatekeeping. The abnormal things people label as immoral aren’t actually ethically wrong, but display a lack of social awareness, willingness to be an outcast, or imply other immoral actions in a way that causes people not to want to be associated with them.