This is so tribal: When the Left commit or incite violence, it's OK, because they are the goodies, but woe betide anyone on the Right doing the same. Then it's evil, because they are the baddies.
https://twitter.com/BernardKerik/status/1351000751846412296
Where are the academics whose job it is to understand this?
Too busy virtue-signalling their own claim to being goodies!
Instead of developing an understanding of #HumanTribalism, all they do is trivialise, ridicule or demonise it.
Too busy virtue-signalling their own claim to being goodies!
Instead of developing an understanding of #HumanTribalism, all they do is trivialise, ridicule or demonise it.
What is the job of political scientists, if not to understand this?
They could easily understand it, but refuse to, much as Catholic academics refused to understand Galileo.
Maybe I can help by explaining their resistance to recognising the importance of human tribalism.
They could easily understand it, but refuse to, much as Catholic academics refused to understand Galileo.
Maybe I can help by explaining their resistance to recognising the importance of human tribalism.
I have a number of explanations, which complement each other.
1) It would involve admitting their own tribalism & tribal prejudices, which, as academics & supposed moral authorities, they are loath to do. They are supposed to be objective & above such base influences.
1) It would involve admitting their own tribalism & tribal prejudices, which, as academics & supposed moral authorities, they are loath to do. They are supposed to be objective & above such base influences.
2) The Nazis manipulated & abused German tribalism for their own evil purposes, in misconceived, knee-jerk, #NeverAgain response to which, academics chose to demonise & suppress human tribalism itself & the prejudices that come with it.
3) A taboo against an evolutionary approach to understanding human nature & society, because of past abuse in the form of race science (esp. by Nazis) & Social Darwinism.
Evo-sociobiology is what academics need to apply to understanding human nature (esp. tribalism) & society.
Evo-sociobiology is what academics need to apply to understanding human nature (esp. tribalism) & society.
4) The West's academic, intellectual & political elites have committed themselves, over decades, to the moral supremacist ideology of Post-Racial #Multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism, which serves as a modern, secular replacement for medieval church ideology.
Post-Racial #Multiculturalism, DIVERSITY, Inclusion & #AntiRacism is rooted in #CriticalRaceTheory, or maybe vice versa. Certainly it was overreaction to the evils of Nazism & its criminally insane racial ideology which came first. #CRT arose later. @ConceptualJames @BenWinegard
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