Message from @Horns
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IT IS VITAL
YOU ARE TRYING TO DISTINGUISH BETWEEN PRETEXT AND CAUSE
no it isn't because we are talking in hindsight not what was apparent to people who were having real debates over policies back then.
ONE MUST NOT CONFUSE POLITICAL SYMBOLS WITH REALITY
VOTERS DO NOT LIKE NUANCE
WAS FERGUSON REALLY ABOUT MIKE BROWN?
Well then join me in nuance man
Hail trump
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vaishya party hour.
Lecturing me on the kshatriya phiosopher.
NUANCE REQUIRES LOOKING AT THE UNDERLYING STRUCTURE
AND THAT IS USUALLY ECONOMIC AND DEMOGRAPHIC, NOT SYMBOLIC
BUT SYMBOLISM IS HOW ONE ACQUIRES VOTES
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nevermind
"Nuance" means never making any specific reference to texts or their history and instead using them in a ham-fisted way in support of temporal political goals.
THE UNDERLYING CAUSES OF THE CIVIL WAR ARE COMPLEX BUT GO WAY BACK TO THE TENSION BETWEEN RURAL AND URBAN STATES
THIS EXPANDED OVER TIME
MOST WARS ARE ECONOMIC
My self-proclaimed red-feminist professor agrees with you.
THE LEFT WANTS TO BELIEVE THAT EVERYONE IS AUTONOMOUS
AND EQUAL IN GENERAL ABILITY
THEREFORE, SYMBOLS MATTER MORE THAN REALITY
Rural versus urban is too vague.
Do you have ADHD?
The only people that discuss equality of ability or outcome are right wing critiques. I really just see left wing people talking about relational equality ie power.
Maybe it's different in universities I dunno
EGALITARIANISM IS ALL ABOUT POWER
Some do seriously believe that genetics provides no limiting factor.
IT WAS INVENTED TO DEPOSE THE UPPER CASTES
But you're looking at only what they verbalize.
Look at what they do.
Say; education.
Public education.
Hey, what's going on?
A closer approximation to equality of outcome is achieved by forcing the superior students in with the inferior, then teaching to the lower.
So the higher ones become embittered, bored, and "problem kids".
They say that destroying hierarchy means anyone who was previously lower is able to rise to the areas formerly denied to them, but it means that those formerly higher are never allowed to be there again.