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social moment

1. That moment when a group of friends in a social setting all stop talking to one another because they're all checking their social media.

2. That moment when you fall out of a conversation with friends and start checking your phone and scrolling and scrolling. No, he didn't write you back yet!
1. "Look at that table! They're all just sitting there on their phones not talking. Are they even friends?"

"Sure, they're just having a social moment."

2. "......... Hey, Jess! I'm talking to you!"

"Huh? Sorry, I was having a social moment."
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Social Distance Warrior

Someone who takes it upon themselves to walk around and tell people off if they're too close
I had this social distance warrior have a go at us because we were too close together
by SmegheadRimmer July 15, 2020
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social lemming

Doing something because everyone else is doing it, no matter how stupid
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Socially Congruent

Being aware of how you are behaving in a group of people and adjusting accordingly.
I got drunk at my brother’s graduation, now I have to be socially congruent.
by _whitegriffin_ September 28, 2019
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political socialization

It is when the government forces you to talk to people even when you don't want too
extrovert: let's go to trump's campaign

introvert: I don't want to go plus I hate trump and him truing yo make us political socialization when there is a pandemic going on
extrovert(pulls out a gun): we are going
introvert: ok
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Social Shock

When someone consciously finds themself past their limit in a social situation but they find the energy to keep going because of social obligations. They often experience extreme fatigue after these moments are over.
The only reason I got through that office holiday party was because of social shock.
by carlthelong August 18, 2023
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Nassim's Sword of Social Justice

Nassim’s Sword of Social Justice (aka D’Sousa’s Razor)

Identified by Nassim Nicholas Taleb in the Medium article: The Merchandising of Virtue" - May 27, 2017

"Kids with rich parents talk about “white privilege” at such privileged colleges as Amherst –but in one instance, one of them could not answer D’Souza’s simple and logical suggestion: ‘Why don’t you go to the registrar’s office and give your privileged spot to a minority student who was next in line?’

Hence the principle:

If your private life conflicts with your intellectual opinion, it cancels your intellectual ideas, not your private life.

and

If your private actions do not generalise then you cannot have general ideas.

This is not strictly about ethics, but information transfer. If a car salesman tries to sell you a Detroit car while driving a Honda, he is signalling that it may have a problem."

The video Taleb is referencing is:
SO SATISFYING: Dinesh D'Souza absolutely shreds SJW over "white privilege" - Young America's Foundation

Published 09 Jun 2018. Recorded at Amherst College.

If you hold an intellectual ideal, but your real world actions do not reflect or enforce this ideal. Then your actions cancel out this ideological stance. You cannot say to the words "I am a vegan" and claim the moral virtue for such an identity, but occasionally eat chicken. The act of eating the chicken cancels out any moral or ideological virtue or superiority claimed by being vegan.
Student: "We have numbers that demonstrate precisely how much wealth was stolen, and that's money that in some way could be given back."

D'Sousa: "You're willing to have social justice with other people's pay, but you're not willing to pay.

So that's the problem. And that's the problem with the progressivism that marches behind social justice, while protecting its own privileges. You know, how you said, we all have to survive, really, you have to be at Amherst to survive?
You don't have to be at Amherst to survive, you have to be at Amherst to benefit.
You have to be at Amherst because you're getting opportunities at this college that many other people are not getting.

So if you say you believe in equal opportunity, you're a hypocrite because you are taking advantage of opportunities unavailable to others. But for you this hypocrisy is fully justified because you are militating on behalf of the poor. But if it's if you're against privilege - this college is privilege. So there's a glaring hypocrisy, and you will never turn your moral mirror on yourself to say, What am I doing about it?

That's my point. For you - society should act before you do - to enforce your moral code.”
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Person A: “I’m a vegan but I occasionally have some chicken.”
Person B: “By the logic of Nassim's Sword of Social Justice - the act of eating the chicken cancels out your vegan claim, regardless of what you say about yourself.”
by bewdew December 9, 2023
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