I think it's funny how often Slate Star and its associated groups come so close to Marxist theory while dancing around the edge of it and this article is no different:
Are these tribes based on geography? Are they based on race, ethnic origin, religion, IQ, what TV channels you watched as a kid? I don’t know.
What could it be? Maybe some common sort of... substantial situations? :curious-marx: no that's not quite it
EDIT: Also immediately after that he implies it's genetic :michael-laugh:
His conclusion is hilariously wrong like most of what he comes up with. This is due to the western right's view of ingroups and outgroups. Their ingroup is westerners and outgroup is non-westerners. This is why they so easily descend into racism and xenophobia. Whenever anything bad happens, blame The Other. But here's a really interesting essay that argues that the western left's ingroups are the right's outgroups, and the left's outgroup is the right. It's the milieu where the "will trade racists for rapists" signs came from.
I think it's funny how often Slate Star and its associated groups come so close to Marxist theory while dancing around the edge of it and this article is no different:
What could it be? Maybe some common sort of... substantial situations? :curious-marx: no that's not quite it
EDIT: Also immediately after that he implies it's genetic :michael-laugh: