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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
Here's a post someone made on another forum that expresses frustration with tribalism, in the context of the Dallas shooting:
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By "acceptable" I mean, you have accepted it as inevitable and an unchangeable part of humanity. You have resigned yourself to it, but not to tribalism.
I think the post you quoted is fallacious. It's funny how much it sounds like you, though. It ends with an accurate description of current American tribalism, but begins with a nonsense nihilistic version. It doesn't take nuance or freedom of thought into account.
I would wager the vast majority of BLM are not "for" killing police, as the vast majority of All Lives Matter types are not "for" killing black Americans. Most people that you accuse of resorting to the "tribalism" of identity politics of black/white, gay/straight, etc. are completely capable and more often enact rational thought inspired by tribal lines than thought formed exclusively by tribal lines.
Tribalism is an unchangeable part of human nature. It will always exist, greater so than racism. In fact, tribalism is the very thing that BREEDS racism, so my point is that you can't possibly point to identity politics as tribalism and say "we should stop that" and then point to racism and say "we can't stop that."
The two opinions are entirely logically inconsistent with each other.