Teasing builds solidarity on shared consumption, not shared citizenship

Evidence

In a way, teasing did create a thin common ground, based on a common lack of pretentiousness. It revolved around members’ supposedly stupid consumption habits, rather than, say, bad voting decisions or dumb political positions or unfounded religious preferences. But whether George ate Spam or drank coffee or used the right barbecue sauce was not something that deeply concerned fellow Buffaloes. Relentless teasing helped bolster members’ belief that they were not smart enough to be good citizens, but that that did not matter. — Nina Eliasoph, Avoiding politics, 793

Categorization

• XREF: Direct contrast to the reader’s core research question—solidarity built not on positive shared project but on shared self-deprecating civic incapacity; connects to theories of civic virtue and mutual-aid solidarity being pursued elsewhere in the reading. — connects to: Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity: An…, 1981; Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121; Consumerist appropriation severs style from the social system that produces the underclass — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2862 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Shared oppression under corporate power fails to produce solidarity in postmodern imagination #qualifies (0.75) — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1981
• Consumerist appropriation severs style from the social system that produces the underclass #complicates (0.75) — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 2862
• Shared attention builds a collective rather than merely private reality #corroborates (0.72) — Yves Citton, The Ecology of Attention, 121