Good point. Norm can be BOTH effective & counter-productive. Like repressing secessionist movements. Stores up grievances, but scares off secession (ie Xinjiang, Kurdistan under Saddam). Until system tips, when old grievances become force multiplier & invoking norm exacerbates
“Telling people they’re racist, sexist and xenophobic is going to get you exactly nowhere. It’s such a threatening message....when people feel threatened, they can’t change, they can’t listen"https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/jul/14/identity-politics-right-left-trump-racism …
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"making white Americans aware that they would soon be a minority increased their propensity to favor their own group and become wary of those outside it" What an unexpected result! Good that we have such highly qualified scholars working on this.https://twitter.com/rogerahicks/status/1015693451655024640 …
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Gareth Southgate's approach to English identity being better than Emily Thornbury's.
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Humans have an inborn bias towards the family an the extensions form it. "racism" and "xenophobia" is an attempt to make this bias into nurture and not nature. Communism had the same view on human nature and lost to it.
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So you brand whole sections of the population as such, and forfeit any chance of changing their mind.
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In other news: water found to be wet.
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Disagree. The nuts on the right recognize their biases much more readily than the social justice warriors on the far left. I find more difficult to have a meaningful conversation with an extreme liberal, than with a staunch conservative.
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