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soraminazukilast Tuesday at 1:38 AM3 repliesview on HN

I still can't believe we have hundreds of years of documented history to learn from, yet human intelligence is still blinded by bigotry.


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broken-kebablast Tuesday at 9:48 AM

The irony is that virtue-signalling (which your comment certainly is) is a shared identity declaration. Which is a part of the same inherent human predisposition to form groups which we call "tribalism" when we like to don't like it.

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account42last Tuesday at 11:34 AM

That others have learned a different lesson from history compared to your beliefs does not mean that they are ignorant of it.

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kansfacelast Tuesday at 3:02 PM

I will stake the claim, as an engineer never having studied sociology, that in group favoritism is the (only) stable political arrangement by and large… and further, the preservation of any culture necessitates discrimination of some sort.

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