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Keith S Schuerholz's avatar

Part of rejecting tribalism is rejecting the beautiful, but lying narratives your group has built up about itself. Many people are now coming face to face with the lies they were taught from childhood about how morally superior their group always was. This is very healthy, even if it is painful.

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Joseph (Jake) Klein's avatar

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Keith S Schuerholz's avatar

It's important to feel a sense of sympathy for people going through this - especially if they have an identity that is bound up in being "chosen" or "superior" or a "noble victim." Learning you are no better than anyone else - especially no better than those in the "out group" - is a difficult thing to accept and the agony is very real.

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Keith S Schuerholz's avatar

'A culture that subjugates the individual for the benefit of the collective ultimately harms both.

'This is also why, as we've begun to see each other primarily through collective identities—race, sex, politics, religion—we've become more unreasonable, aggressive, and divided.'

- Salomé Sibonex

Rejecting tribalism starts at home. This includes every group, without exceptions. It includes the groups that resist it the most, even unconsciously.

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Marian Baldwin's avatar

Once “feeling” superceded Truth Seeking, Wokeness was lost to me. As an early supporter of Leighton as well as Coleman Hughes and Bari Weiss, I’ve been quite unhappy with the latter two, esp Bari!!!! Being in the Bay Area there’s a legal case ongoing in Oakland Re Jewish students not feeling safe. I wonder how these students are going to feel learning the political history of Zionism. Thanks for todays talk. Feel not so alone.

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RSL's avatar

“What I was told…”

“…or something like that.”

Probably true, but aren’t you a reporter? Why rely on hearsay?

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