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Originally Posted by CorsiHockeyLeague
Absurd to characterize a manichaean world view as the product of "colonialism" or anything particularly American. The "my group good, other group evil" has as noted always been a thing, back to fearing the members of the primitive tribe from the next valley over. But those instincts have been exploited for profit in particular in the last couple of decades by the proliferation of variety and choice of information or opinion you can consume (while blurring the lines between those two things), a trend which has had as its obvious and inevitable result some of the most effective group polarization you could ever hope for in any controlled psychological experiment... in other words, see my signature.
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I think your point is totally valid, but I would argue that there is a difference between the natural human tendencies to view the world in us/them terms and the power dynamics of colonialism that exploit and perpetuate those tendencies. I feel I could have made that distinction clearer in my comments.
As to your comments about online behaviour, which are more relevant to the specific discussion at hand in this thread, I would agree completely.