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> the other stuff is usually window dressing Makes for good grievance politics though, eh?

• cmrdporcupine 3y ago
  I'm on the side of the actually-aggrieved.
  • nostrebored 3y ago
    And so is everyone else. It just turns out that who is actually aggrieved isn’t so easy to ascertain.
    • whatshisface 3y ago
      It would be easier if the lines demarcating groups were drawn according to their behavior and not according to their cultural group. For example, criminals and innocents are a pair of groups with obvious perpetrator-victim relationships, while "likes star trek" and "does not like star trek," a way to group the exact same set of individuals, is impossible to pick a side on. Could you imagine how impossible it would be to have a peaceful society if people said things like, "a Trekkie stole the tape deck out of my car?" Sadly there are places in the world, a lot of them in Africa, where nobody can look beyond their superficial traits to classify criminals apart from their victims.