Like, guys, I think they know they're a tribe now. Poor Barack Obama tried to tamp down on American tribalism, and now we're all going around thinking we're very educated for saying that *all* politics is tribal conflict -- as if that wasn't warmongering.
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Because that's what happens when your fundamental vision of society is a collection of dichotomous tribes fighting each-other for resources and political power. It's an intrinsically fascist worldview, and it gets people killed.
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I think the perception of other groups can only go away when there is one single culture which, to me, is at best a terrifying dystopia, but mostly I think is just a fantasy.
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