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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
The fact that it's impactful and relevant to people is a tautology. Of course it is; as everyone agrees, it's a human trait. We can't help but be predisposed in that way. What I'm saying is that that is a bad thing. It's a drag on human progress. Your position seems to be, unless I'm missing something, that "it's natural, therefore it's normative". That's a pretty easy position to discard, if so.
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My point was that it's hard, which you seem to agree with.
You're asking the left to abandon tribalism because the left isn't being nice enough when they say "if tribalism stays, they need to be equal and there's no room for tribes that say otherwise." Working towards ending the need for tribes (even if it seems like a whole bunch of little ones pop up) is a much closer step than suggesting we do nothing if we can't abandon it outright.
You're never going to get the change you're looking for, not in your life time. It seems counter-productive to rally against the change that heads that direction. It doesn't take an academic to see that equality leads to less division.