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You know what's bad? Racism. Those people should be cancelled! You know what's great? Tribalism. How about them $SportsTeam! Let's have more multibillion dolla
by keithalewis 3y ago
You know what's bad? Racism. Those people should be cancelled!
You know what's great? Tribalism. How about them $SportsTeam! Let's have more multibillion dollar businesses to encourage people to hate anyone who doesn't agree $SportsTeam is the greatest! We should have rich old white men own them and give them a pass on DEI. It might hit their bottom line if they were not allowed to hire the best players in the market. Can you imagine a world where ROWM are not allowed their god-given right to exploit our quirks of evolutionary development? We could not enrich them further by gathering in large groups to celebrate our $SportsTeam tribe and spew hate on the $OtherTeam tribe. Maybe even beat them up in the parking lot after the game if we lost.
Go tribalism!
- _8j50 3y agoYou lost me after the first sentence. I don't follow sports enough, maybe that's why. I don't do social media outside HN and don't get people who use their real names on the public internet so the idea of being cancelled is not one I have strong opinions on. But if you just meant racist people suck then I must agree.
- keithalewis 3y agoI was attempting to make the point that racism is not that different than tribalism. To root out racism one must understand what drives it.
- _8j50 3y agoI agree with that, but that might take generations. In the meantime, measures have to be taken to reduce active and intentional racism.
- keithalewis 3y agoMaybe the USA should pass some civil rights legislation and enforce desegregation by bussing black children to white schools and white children to black schools. What measures would you suggest?