• @[email protected]
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    22 months ago

    Fast food social media. Nice term there.

    Anyways, I don’t see why this has to be a matter of high privilege vs. low privilege. There’s definitely a correlation, but depressed rich people and happy poor people aren’t uncommon. Also, not all questions of positivity vs. negativity are in contexts that relate to privilege. It could be about the direction of a media series, for example, which is where I’ve heard it misused.

    • sp3ctr4l
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      2 months ago

      You know, you are correct.

      You absolutely could be toxicly positive from a position of basically 0 privilege, such as maybe an ascetic who thinks that the solution to the problems of poverty is to actually embrace or accept suffering, and not do anything to change it.

      We do seem to agree though that toxic positivity is a persistent attitude and mindset, at least.