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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by JoeAltmaier on Thursday February 27, 2020 @10:22AM (#22434010)
Some in the West include more people in their in-group. Some are not so tribalistic as imagined. From that point of view, they are defending their own.
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Re:Reddit’s profane, greedy traders are shaking up the stock... by philwelch on Thursday February 27, 2020 @09:38PM (#22440062)
In none of the situations I mentioned are people acting protectively towards an in-group, but rather towards a particular revered individual. Social norms and taboos are much more complicated than that.
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