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You might be missing the point.

Business leaders encouraging inclusivity is a winning strategy for their business, as it helps them get the best skills. This is not a war, it's simply honest to goodness market forces getting things right.

The decision in the US of the GOP to stoke division while as a party deciding to be deliberately obstructionist caused things to go off the rails. That is why you get shenanigans like Republicans claiming that Obama would never nominate a centrist like Garland the day before the announcement, then pivoting 180 to prevent their constitutional duty to advise and consent. They are lucky Obama respected the Constitution as they have opted to be derelict in the performance of their duties.

Your point on terminology isn't the problem in your statement. It's that you project towards cultural division the real issue of classist division.


No I just think there's no point in calling the right out. The only people I have any chance of influencing are my fellow liberals who have themselves made the mistake of becoming authoritarian re speech. I think it's really alienating and hypocritical to call yourself anti-racist and then attack white people, in general. And cooling the reverse-racism would yield very good benefits, as this one "policy" fuels a great deal of Trumpian insanity. By controlling ourselves we have every chance of deescalating a bad situation.


I'm sensing a bias in your observations.

There is indeed a culture war happening but both sides are actively engaged. I think it's worthy of looking into what each side considers "winning" and working backwards from there (i.e., is that really a "good thing"?)




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