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Social leverage

That's what this seems to be about for you. Bill C-16 gives your students a degree of arbitrary social leverage that you weren't willing to afford them.

Hym "Hey, I really didn't use your work for a whole lot initially. I was saying back then what YOU are saying NOW because I was going though the thing that you are actively doing now. I had no recourse. I had no way of defending myself. I didn't even have the vocabulary to defend myself. The only tool I had to defend myself because I WAS (and still am) going though what you ARE going though. And I'm not allowed to use it because IT'S AGAINST THE RULES. And then I started critiquing it. And that's my REAL crime. It's like the chicken and the grasshopper. See, the chicken had a theory. And he thought his theory couldn't be contended with. Unfortunately for the chicken, there was a fatal flaw. You see, in the same way that there are two classes of fear, there are two classes of genius. And the grasshopper is both. So, like the brilliant deconstructionist that he is, the grasshopper began to contend with those uncontendwithable ideas. Jokingly at first. The chicken was enraged. His shining golden-god moment was sullied by the grasshopper.
And then the grasshopper began to posit HIS OWN IDEAS. And what's more, everyone loved it. They didn't just love it. It was objectively brilliant. Poetry and prose the likes of which the world had never seen. Comedy skits, philosophy, theology, social psychology. Literally billions of dollars worth of ideas. And not just quality but quantity as well. An untapped wellspring of new ideas. Some speculation. From conceptual arms deal to archetypal hero (and villian sometimes) over night.... and shit, I'm running out of characters.... Long story short, the grasshopper is now technically one of the greatest writer's all time and I forgot to use the words 'social leverage'. Shit. I went off half cocked here. I'll come back to it.
by Hym Iam January 12, 2023
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Social Justice Warrior

An activist who is motivated more by a love of conflict than by a desire to accomplish the (typically liberal) purported political goal. Whereas regular activists prefer to win without a fight, a social justice warrior prefers to fight without a win.
"I have to spend an afternoon sorting through my old Twitter posts. If I don't, some self-righteous social justice warrior might go digging and try to whip up a mob to get me fired for using a currently-disapproved term sixteen years ago when I was in high school instead of just privately asking me to remove it."
by IowanStill September 2, 2023
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Social Tampon

When an individual is venting to you in a conversation inconsiderate of the person they’re venting to. After said person absorbs their blood, the bleeder disposes of them.
Amy: Matthew stopped speaking with me as soon as he couldn’t talk about himself and vent to me.

Bob: Amy, you were used as a social tampon.
by Shinon September 6, 2023
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Social Tampon

When an individual is venting to you in a conversation inconsiderate of the person they’re venting to. After said person absorbs their blood, the bleeder either keeps using them or disposes of them.
Amy: Matthew stopped speaking with me as soon as he couldn’t talk about himself and vent to me.

Bob: Amy, you were used as a social tampon.
by Shinon September 6, 2023
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social skills

What most people, including me, don't have. Due to an increase in the amount of people using the Internet, that's to be expected of human society.
Bob: Do you have any social skills?
Alex: No, just like you and the other 99.99999% of the human population.
by Doctorate in Cussing September 11, 2023
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Social Execution

The act of executing or killing one's social life by the executioner embarrassing, showing dominance, and even spreading lies about the person.
Daniel: Your a nerd, jack!
Jack: You're*
Daniel: NOOOOOOO
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Hey, did you hear Jack got so embarrassed he went through Social execution?
by Pseudomer September 22, 2023
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socially restarted

A misspelled attempt to say socially retarded, first seen in the bio of a tinder user describing the kind of man who should swipe left on their profile.
I'm not into guys that can't hold a decent conversation. So if you're socially restarted. Swipe left.
by FAFODownUnder September 23, 2023
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