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So I take it you are in favor of banning critical race theory in schools? In favor of violent insurrection in an attempt to overthrow a free and fair election?
by freen 5y ago
So I take it you are in favor of banning critical race theory in schools?
In favor of violent insurrection in an attempt to overthrow a free and fair election?
I don’t disagree that I am a member of a tribe. That’s not the problem. The problem is when tribes see their own behavior as default good because it is their own tribe and don’t hold themselves to standards that exist beyond any individual tribe.
Which is precisely what the practice of democracy is: an agreed upon set of principles that extend beyond any individual tribe and to which all tribes agree to hold themselves accountable.
One tribe, though, doesn’t anymore. That’s terrifying.
- tomjen3 5y ago>That’s not the problem. The problem is when tribes see their own behavior as default good because it is their own tribe and don’t hold themselves to standards that exist beyond any individual tribe. That is one of your problems, yes. The other is to see everybody who disagrees with you as the same. If society wants to come together it must first treat each and every person as what they are: unique individuals, defined by their actions and not by arbitrary bodily charicaristica such as eye wave-light reflection or skin melamin content.
- freen 5y agoTribalism is an inescapable component of humanity, at least for the near term. Look: if different tribes can’t agree on the fundamental rules for peaceful co-existence, nothing else really matters. Whatever else different tribes and/or their members might agree upon are irrelevant: we have lost the fundamental peaceful mechanism for conflict resolution. We are back at barbarism/warlords/autocracy. January 6th’s “legitimate political discourse” is literally one tribe’s full fledged abandonment of the mechanisms we have used to ensure peace and prosperity for generations. That way lies a special hell for us all. No other interpersonal agreements/disagreements are relevant without peaceful mechanisms to manage disagreements. You have a beautiful idealism about the irrelevance of bodily characteristics that is unfortunately deeply divorced from the reality of the world. Would be nice to live in a platonic ideal, but as it stands, while race is a fiction, racism is extremely real.