@St_Rev @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing what (and how much) you see depends on where you're standing
@schakalsynthetc @Meaningness @sarahdoingthing making the designated outgroup both uniquely corrupt and uniquely powerful is conspiracy 101
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@St_Rev@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing but a hegemonic standpoint is none of the above, even a genuinely oppressive one -
@schakalsynthetc@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing OK I'm lost. -
@St_Rev@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing the hegemon is not a designated outgroup, not uniquely corrupt and not uniquely powerful -
@St_Rev@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing consider the motivating question of Diamond's "Guns, Germs & Steel" theory -
@St_Rev@Meaningness@sarahdoingthing "if white europeans aren't superior (and not uniquely evil) why do they dominate half the world?" -
@schakalsynthetc@St_Rev "If this architecture is ugly, why is it so high-status?" -
@sarahdoingthing@St_Rev "because it seemed like a good idea at the time, for reasons nobody remembers now"
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