Example: I believe that IP is a direct contradiction of nature, sacrificing the advancement of humanity and the world for selfish gain, and therefore is sinful.
Edit: pls do not downvote the comments this is a constructive discussion
Edit2: IP= intellectal property
Edit3: sort by controversal
It’s gatekeeping. As far as I can tell, the stated goals are never the actual point in practice. Which sucks, because there’s a lot of important issues.
I don’t know the word “gatekeeping” well but maybe that’s it. I was specifically thinking about a situation I had to witness. Two men, one of them being my friend, celebrating about a political action that went well. Except one of the group, a woman, got caught and was facing prison charges. The two men started to rejoice about how the trial would be a great place for her to claim their ideas in front of the judges and the press, make it a political trial. All this time, the woman was literally trembling for a very good reason : she was afraid of going to jail, she didn’t want that.
This scene made me realize if there’s some kind of collective emancipation to be find somewhere it’s not in this kind of act of purety. People should do what they want and can at a certain point in their lives. Not me forced into becoming the martyrs they don’t want to be because it’s a good thing to do “for the cause”.
It’s more of a slang word, but it’s the act of arbitrarily not including certain people in a group, and including yourself in that group, in order to make yourself feel special or better emotionally. In the Anglosphere at least, activists do that a lot. They do it to non-activists, and to each other even more.
Sorry, I may have inserted my own “pet issue” here. Your story just sounds like a lack of empathy.
It was, but actually, gatekeeping as you defined it fits the kind of situation I broadly wanted to refer too. This example is a little extreme, but yeah. Thanks for the definition, btw!