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lee's avatar

Thank you for your service in watching and summarizing this, it was both very funny and a genuinely helpful look at where people are coming from on this stuff. It reminded me of Arlie Hochschild's book on american conservatism, which I also found really helpful in framing out these narratives.

Also, "We’re engaging in politics as a game of individual righteousness, but with no vision for the world for which we’re fighting" is such a succinct formulation of that concept, I'm writing it down so I can have it to hand next time I need to explain it!

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Jane DeRonne's avatar

Thank you for watching and distilling that so we all don't have to, and especially for those last three paragraphs. And whoever is going to start making the plan to show white people that life without white supremacy actually feels better for everyone, please count me in.

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