What is toxic positivity and what are some examples of it?
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Toxic positivity is when the insistence on only “seeing the good” in things escalates to the point where it becomes unacceptable to acknowledge or recognize anything that is not within a narrowly defined range of positive. This often manifests in online fandoms as prohibitions against any kind of criticism or contrary opinion of the fandom or its accepted tenets. It also comes up in discussion around disabilities and body image as well. For example, toxic positivity around disabilities leads to referring to the community as “differently abled”, which in turn can diminish the very real struggle people face to accomplish every day tasks and also can decrease awareness and support for necessary accommodation of these disabilities.
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