“More acceptable to the choir” would be more accurate. Around here the in-group signalling chorus is “other people are sycophants and I am better connected and less gullible”. More generally, the choir signal is “I consider any comments that don’t advocated deference to status unacceptable because I am high status myself and want the approval of those even higher”. From this it is easy to extract Contrarian Status Catch 18.
“More acceptable to the choir” would be more accurate. Around here the in-group signalling chorus is “other people are sycophants and I am better connected and less gullible”. More generally, the choir signal is “I consider any comments that don’t advocated deference to status unacceptable because I am high status myself and want the approval of those even higher”. From this it is easy to extract Contrarian Status Catch 18.