I have come to the unfortunate conclusion that when people say "you are creating polarization", they pretty much mean "stop pointing out problems and let's pretend none exist"
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Like people who complain about black lives matter and insisting that "all lives matter" is semantically useful. Those people are actually polarising people by claiming that caring about extrajudicial killings of black people in the US is something that can be ignored.
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The idea that a problem can be ignored is telling. To the people coming from that stance, it's not a problem. Ergo, those pointing it out as a problem are creating polarization.
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"All lives matter" is true but irrelevant in light of the real, actually mortal, danger people face in the U.S. of A. because their skin isn't light enough (or their faith isn't widespread enough, or their orientation isn't common enough, or…)
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My example is austerity in th UK, which I believe was exactly pursued to change the middle ground, to polarise people.
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Based on bad science too — and yes, created to harm to poor no matter what.https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/apr/18/uncovered-error-george-osborne-austerity …
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We’re very good at overseeing errors if the outcome pleases our bias, but in this case, I suspect it was finding “facts” to fit after the strategy was chosen.
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Yes, I agree with that.
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