Category: Tribalism
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Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism
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Tribalism and Diversity
Tribalism is on the rise while classical liberalism is on the wane. Given this fact, does it make sense to admit into one's country ever more different tribes? A piety oft-intoned by leftists is that diversity is our strength. An Orwellianism, that, if tribal diversity is at issue.* For that would amount to the absurdity…
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Polylogism and Leftist Racism
Anthony Flood sends us to Charles Burris, Polylogism — The Root of America's Divisiveness, Decline and Destruction. History is repeating itself before our eyes. The widespread controversy surrounding President Joe Biden’s Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as a “black woman” recalls the editorial in The Washington Times, “A Judge Too Far,” concerning President Obama’s earlier…
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Victor Davis Hanson on Tribalism
I was planning to upload a batch of quotations from Chapter Three, Tribes, in Victor Davis Hanson's latest, The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization are Destroying the Idea of America, Basic Books, 2021. But my effort was stymied when the book was recalled. For now, there is this: The reversion to tribalism…
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On Transcending Tribalism: A Critique of Jonathan Haidt
My latest at Substack. Jonathan Haidt, who is well worth reading, naively thinks that closer proximity and more interaction, more 'conversations,' will bring us together. A nice, heart-warming sentiment, that; one with no basis in reality, however.
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Dennis Prager on Liberalism, Leftism, and Race
Here at Substack. IS IT REASONABLE TO BE A SEX REALIST BUT A RACE IRREALIST LIKE PRAGER? If not, should one affirm the biological reality of both, deny the biological reality of both, or affirm race realism and sex irrealism?
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On Transcending Tribalism
Jonathan Haidt: Humans are tribal, but tribalism can be transcended. It exists in tension with our extraordinary ability to develop bonds with other human beings. Romeo and Juliet fell in love. French, British and German soldiers came out of their trenches in World War I to exchange food, cigarettes and Christmas greetings. The key, as…
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A Comment Thread on Tribalism and Identity Politics from December, 2015
Part of an uncommonly good thread. Here is the entry to which the thread attaches. …………………………………………………. Anon, My point was that many short comments are better than one long one. One problem here is that I tossed out a word, 'tribalism,' but did not define it. What's worse is that I used it very loosely.…
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Celebrity Privilege
Add that to Black Privilege and Leftist Privilege and you've got some serious privileging going on. Not to mention the tribalism of blacks which makes it very difficult for them to be objective about members of their own race. Remember the O. J. Simpson trial? And to those on the Reactionary Right, I say: white…
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Is it politically sane to want both to crush and to tolerate opposing tribes?
George Packer in The New Yorker on tribalism: I hear myself say this and think, A solid analysis. At the same time, I hear a Republican reply, Pure tribalism. You’re just proving your own point. I want part of my brain, even a small part, to be always attuned to the frequency of other tribes, ready to pose the essential…
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Madeleine Albright, Chief of the Tribal Females
"There's a special place in hell for women who don't help each other." Thus Madeleine Albright, urging women to vote for Hillary because she's a woman. Now there is a reason that stands up to sober scrutiny. That's on a level with someone's refusing to vote for Hillary because of her pant-suited thunder thighs. Albright…