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I had some relatives fighting so hard to get their kids a voucher to go to a better school. I kept thinking why is it then that you vote to defund education? Shouldn’t you want schools to be better in general?
But no, they just went great schools for their kids in particular. Fuck everybody else.
Me, myself, and anybody I care about. Everyone else is Woke. Or whatever slur they're drumming up this week.
I plan to have no children and still realize the benefits of better schools for everyone. Why would I want to live in a future where the next generation is a bunch of idiots, there are already enough idiots in my own generation
Yep. They want everyone to have it worse while they have access to an out
It's this about everything. I remember arguing to my grandmother, who told me flat to my face, she only cares about her and her own because "it's a dog eat dog world"
I have no kids and want better schools for kids
In-group, out-group, fascism etc.
I can't remember the full quote or who wrote it.
Or: rules for thee but not for mee
When you drill holes in every boat so that everyone else will leave, even the fanciest ship you choose will be taking on water just the same.
I have a friend who's dad immigrated to the US from Mexico initially illegally but managed to get citizenship, then voted for Trump back in 2016. Said he wanted to put the first brick in the wall. I hate people.
Conservatives think equality is a scam. Everything is zero-sum. Surely, all anyone's trying to do is put themselves in the good spots, at the expense of everyone else.
I think it's a tribal reactive feeling of "my people need to live". Remember that conservatives are more fear driven.
This. The honest answer is some degree of "We've been generous, but they will kill us once they outnumber us."
Inb4 literal centuries of literature, film, games, etc. in which the primary theme is "we were the real 'savages' all along"
Yeah but "my people" is humanity. That's the difference.
Yes, you and I feel that way. Actually there's a neat test of values. Ask people to rank the following in terms of personal importance, what do they value the most, to the least?
world / country / state / town / friends / family
Or any slight variation of the above. I would put country in last place, for sure. What about you? Many people would put the world last.
Frankly I put state last.
Yeah those Marsians can fuck right off back to their home!!1!one
Reading Luke Kemp’s Goliath’s Curse has a statement referencing Barbara Walter’s How Civil Wars Start And How to Stop Them: A dominant ethnic group losing status within a country is the single best predictor of civil war today.
...so Barbara Walter argues that ethnostates are necessary to keep the peace? 🤨
That speaks more to your ideological fantasy than anything else.
In the chapter “The Rise of Factions,” Walter describes how aspiring autocrats cultivated racial and ethnic resentments that culminated in brutal ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. In “The Dark Consequence of Losing Status,” she describes how a sudden change in the power of a specific ethnic group can be more inflammatory than a sustained structural imbalance.
https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2022/10/13/review-walter-jacobs-civil-war-243912/
That speaks more to your ideological fantasy than anything else.
Actually, that you interpret it that way speaks to my failure in walking the line between my joke being dry enough without sounding like I'm being sincere 🤷
In the chapter “The Rise of Factions,” Walter describes how aspiring autocrats cultivated racial and ethnic resentments that culminated in brutal ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. In “The Dark Consequence of Losing Status,” she describes how a sudden change in the power of a specific ethnic group can be more inflammatory than a sustained structural imbalance.
Sounds about right, yeah.
Oh.. a joke, yes, ha ha.
How could there ever be a minority of us Americans in America?
I write in American under race
I put "Red, white, and blue" under ethnicity
Holy fuck self identify as American and identify them as American too then everyone is the fucking majority.
I wish it were that simple. Most of us are good old fashioned American mutts, but a significant portion of the population picks only single ancestral heritages to latch onto. Like, I've got Irish ancestors, but I have so relatively few of them that to claim being Irish American would be misleading at best. We cosplay our favorite ethnicity once, maybe twice a year on the "appropriate" holidays, and maybe more if we've got cool clothing in our heritage like lederhosen and can play the concertina
I wouldn't be fascinated for a second by that line. I'd just assume the person delivering it was a piece of shit.
This one just made me laugh sardonically! 🙁
I think it’s more about preserving their echo chamber maintained.
I mean, yeah.
Easy comeback, how are minorities treated in other countries? for example if you receive a lot of immigration from Nigeria how are minorities treated there? Just because our society is tolerant doesn't mean others are not intolerant.
For an IRL example just read about the Lebanese Civil War.
