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Let's just say you are a member of a group of people who have been in a constant cultural conflict with another group of people. For hundreds of years they've i
by moate 7y ago
Let's just say you are a member of a group of people who have been in a constant cultural conflict with another group of people. For hundreds of years they've inserted themselves into your homelands, force changes to the culture to fit their needs, and generally been entirely disinterested in actively engaging with you as a coequal resident of their space.
Then, finally, you're able to find some ways to use their cultural system against them to get your needs met and your voice heard in your homeland. Some of this involves appeals to logic, but others involve appeals to emotion. To you, the ends justify the means. The stakes feel very high.
Now imagine some dude on the internet refers to you as a nitwit without really have looked at the larger picture of what your political action within your homeland means within the larger context of your struggle to maintain your culture and be represented as a coequal member of your homeland.
How do you think you'd respond to this dude on the internet?
- roboys 7y agoSounds like Osama Bin Laden, he was trying to get US military bases off of "sacred religious land" in Saudi Arabia. Primary reason for 9/11, he stated.
- moate 7y agoI don't know that "declaration of holy war and terrorist attacks" quite equal "social pressure from lawsuits and protesting" but it was all left vague so I guess that's a read?
- CamperBob2 7y agoWhat does any of that have to do with building a telescope? Sounds more like an extortion scheme. If your culture doesn't contribute to the advancement of humanity, but rather actively stands in the way, then it needs to die.
- moate 7y agoThat's a take... 1- This telescope doesn't need to be built here, right now. The world will not end if it isn't built, and all the "benefits" you might claim we gain from this are essentially marginal improvements over the existing half dozen telescopes in that area already. There is no reason that the previous expected agreement of "if you want to build new telescopes you need to decommission an existing one and replace it" can't be honored. 2- Do you know what "extortion" actually is? Do you know what the term "tyranny of the majority" means? Are you familiar with any actual sociological concepts in play in this scenario? Do you actually understand the hypothetical example I tried to walk you through previously, or would you like me to further break down a broad view of what this conflict is about rather than trying to go to snappy talking points and witty one liners? Are you actually just trollin son? These are all earnest questions.