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It's exactly the same meaning but with the sign reversed. Turns out identity politics is a terrible idea. Now the Guardian et al are finding out exactly why wh
by llm_trw 2y ago
It's exactly the same meaning but with the sign reversed.
Turns out identity politics is a terrible idea. Now the Guardian et al are finding out exactly why when the people they disagree with are doing it too.
- llamaimperative 2y agoBut uh... isn't it possible that one exists and the other does not?
- llm_trw 2y ago> But uh... isn't it possible that one exists and the other does not? Going through the airport between 2001 and 2021 showed that having a Muslim sounding name was going to be a trigger for a random inspection. The Rotherham child rape gangs investigation into the police clearly showed that complaints against South Asians by Whites were ignored for decades to avoid accusations of racism. The average Guardian reader was only going to be exposed to the first and not the second. So the Guardian went full bore with the basest form of tribalism to explain the things its readers saw. Now the same people who were gleefully destroying the social fabric in the name of progress are acting shocked at what happens when it unravels completely. I have the worlds smallest violin for them.
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- tim333 2y ago>The average Guardian reader was only going to be exposed to the first and not the second Brief googling showed >30 articles in the Guardian on the second.
- prvc 2y agoIs it possible that "two-tier policing" exists, while "two-tier policing" does not? In a word, no. I know this a priori.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoCome on, it's clear they were referring to either my reference to "two different meanings of the term" or the reply's reference to "the same meaning but with the sign reversed"—those are two different meanings.
- ywvcbk 2y agoWere they? They [Guardian] are now claiming that both groups are being treated the same when they were clearly claiming that that wasn’t the case earlier? Which exact groups they are talking about doesn’t really matter for this specific argument.
- tim333 2y agoI don't think the Guardian article does claim that if you read it.
- aeternum 2y agoThe headline claims it, isn't that more important than the article claiming it?
- llamaimperative 2y agoThe headline is being construed to claim what it does not.
- oneeyedpigeon 2y agoExactly: two completely opposing points! I agree that identity politics is a terrible idea.