Tribalism 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-e

Tribalism 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.