to show respectful submission; yielding to someone else (generally given to someone who has more experience or senior to you); dutifulness
Eileen
@willfullthinking.bsky.social
Maybe the deference to people with vanity titles and other unearned ego awards is misplaced. Perhaps public relations and not genuine merit drives a reputation laundering industry of self congratulatory impunity that denies accountability and normalises abuse of power as just another privilege.
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Eileen
@willfullthinking.bsky.social
Like maybe toxic supremacy sellers take advantage of deference to appointed hierarchy systems that convey an unearned legitimacy on them and their inadequacies that is actually fundamentally detrimental to society.
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Longwordmonthly
@longwordmonthly.bsky.social
You forgot the Catholic Church, Evan.
As a nation, we oddly don’t have much deference towards an institution that has covered up systemic child abuse for decades. #bbcpm
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