Divide and conquer should be the motto of much of the crap that passes for information in our complex world. Point over there, no over there, no over there. And on and on it goes. No you are, no you are, no you are. While I hate to bring him up, Trump played this card like no other. From the moment he came down the escalator he knew division would get them on his side. Nationalists do this so well. And to get back on topic what is the significance of the OP but to do the same.....
For the interested reader: 'Race Is a Social Construct, Scientists Argue' 'Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out '
Racial categories are weak proxies for genetic diversity and need to be phased out
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"The president [Trump] is a nationalist, which is not at all the same thing as a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best. A nationalist, 'although endlessly brooding on power, victory, defeat, revenge,' wrote Orwell, tends to be 'uninterested in what happens in the real world.'
Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others. As the novelist Danilo Kiš put it, nationalism 'has no universal values, aesthetic or ethical.' A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves. A patriot must be concerned with the real world, which is the only place where his country can be loved and sustained. A patriot has universal values, standards by which he judges his nation, always wishing it well—and wishing that it would do better." Timothy Snyder 'On Tyranny'
A historian of fascism offers a guide for surviving and resisting America’s turn towards authoritarianism. On November 9th, millions of ...
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