20/This, much more than Trump, is why I've become disillusioned with politics. I find myself wanting those utopian dreams back. (end)
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Replying to @Noahpinion
I mean... is "the end of white supremacy" so much less clear a utopia than "the dictatorship of the proletariat"?
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Replying to @csilverandgold
I want to know what it looks like. Your idea for writing rules for interaction between races into the Constitution was not inspiring!
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Replying to @Noahpinion
Shrug. You gotta make up your mind: do you want a utopia or do you want a utopia you like? You might just not like the utopias on offer.
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Replying to @csilverandgold
I want a utopia I like. "Serf vs. wagecuck" offers a vision of utopia as 18th-century Russia, but I don't like it.
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Replying to @Noahpinion
I think a lot of social justice utopias see racism rather tha race as the problem, and racism as severable from race.
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Replying to @csilverandgold @Noahpinion
So maybe just utopias you don't like...
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Replying to @csilverandgold
I believe those are referred to in common parlance as "dystopias"... ;-)
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Replying to @Noahpinion @csilverandgold
But more generally, I don't think your aforementioned idea is common to the social justice movement as a whole...
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Replying to @Noahpinion @csilverandgold
...perhaps because most social justice folks who *like* that idea are smart, and realize that the idea would sound dystopian to most.
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Oh yeah no, nothing I say is common to social justice people. BUT I think some form of consciously and intentionally managing difference...
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