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> I can't think of a better way to deepen and perpetuate absurd divisions among people than the identity obsession and pseudo-quotas that the modern American pr
by squigz 3y ago
> I can't think of a better way to deepen and perpetuate absurd divisions among people than the identity obsession and pseudo-quotas that the modern American progressive movement is pushing.
I can: going back to ignoring the division that was already being perpetuated.
- inglor_cz 3y agoThere is no going back to the 50s or 60s, American demography has changed profoundly since then and culture, too. There is, though, some space to swing the pendulum too far in the other direction, where white male is the universally undesirable employee/student, and East Asian male meets the same fate because he is "white-adjacent".
- squigz 3y agoI wish I had the time and energy to unpack this. I hope someone else does.