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Re:The Rise of the WeWorking Class by BucketSort on Thursday February 21, 2019 @08:56AM (#19216859)
Yeah, I guess I should have said "mainstream personal choices." If one does something deviant, politeness has typically always gone out the window. These days people pick fights just so they can put themselves in some virtuous light. It's really annoying.
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Re:The Rise of the WeWorking Class by dragonwriter on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:43AM (#19217149)
No, these days behaviors which you remember being unquestionably mainstream are now on the disputed boundary where some substantial number of people see them as deviant.
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Re:The Rise of the WeWorking Class by pjc50 on Thursday February 21, 2019 @09:36AM (#19217115)
These are defined the other way round: "mainstream" is the set of things people accept, and "deviant" is what they call things they don't.
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Re:The Rise of the WeWorking Class by notacoward on Thursday February 21, 2019 @10:03AM (#19217287)
A peer comment to yours nicely illustrates the point. Everyone wants to appropriate "mainstream" for themselves, even as they also want to be recognized as the vanguard of whatever movement they are (transiently) promoting.
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