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constant, identity-targeted conflict that drives polarization and grievance.
Renee DiResta • Crisis of Trust 2026: The Retreat Into Insularity
Let's continue with Amartya Sen's analysis on identity groups relationships
He talks about Rwandans being informed that they are Hutus, and that they hate Tutsis. About Yougoslavians being informed that they are, in fact, Serbs, and that they hate Muslims. His analysis then goes deeply... See more
Within-group affinity can help to feed between group discord
He talks about Rwandans being informed that they are Hutus, and that they hate Tutsis. About Yougoslavians being informed that they are, in fact, Serbs, and that they hate Muslims. His analysis then goes deeply... See more
clemhumb • One true self ? Performing our selves on the digital stage
What I fear is that by embracing identity politics in the 2010s, progressives have thrown away liberals’ ultimate weapon. Appeals to individualism carry much less moral force when the people making those appeals just spent the last decade decrying colorblindness as a tool of systemic racism (or embracing people who made that claim).
This is not to... See more
This is not to... See more