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"Nothing causes a group to galvanize like an external enemy" Yup. This is how vote banks work. Seed the idea of an external enemy to a group of loosely cohesi
by kumarvvr 5y ago
"Nothing causes a group to galvanize like an external enemy"
Yup.
This is how vote banks work. Seed the idea of an external enemy to a group of loosely cohesive group and suddenly they become like a huge entity difficult to be reasoned with.
- teddyh 5y agoThe outgroup defines the ingroup.
- stinkytaco 5y agoMy dad teaches a world religion class and does a unit on religious restrictions (kosher, halal, etc.). He says one of the hardest things to get across to people, even non-religious people, is that rule systems like these are not about practical considerations, they are about defining who is "in" and who is "out". In a time where religion is no longer analogous with ethnicity, this is just not something people really understand anymore.
- runawaybottle 5y agoThe difficult thing about it is that I personally have an aversion to this. Basically makes me always appear difficult because I hate being defined.