Barkley probably wants a return to the colorblind idpol ceasefire of the 80s and 90s. He’s not wrong. The only alternative for a “diverse” society is ever-escalating sectarian violence.
The only alternative for a “diverse” society is ever-escalating sectarian violence.
The saddest thing is that this that this should be obvious to everyone just by glancing at ongoing ethnic and religious conflicts around the world, and dismayingly so as soon as one looks at the history books.
Wherever there is diversity, there will be serious internal conflict if those groups cannot find a common identity. Minority populations get deported or genocided out of countries over and over again in history. It happens all over the world, and the trouble inevitably begins with segregationist attitudes every single time.
Barkley probably wants a return to the colorblind idpol ceasefire of the 80s and 90s. He’s not wrong. The only alternative for a “diverse” society is ever-escalating sectarian violence.
The saddest thing is that this that this should be obvious to everyone just by glancing at ongoing ethnic and religious conflicts around the world, and dismayingly so as soon as one looks at the history books.
Wherever there is diversity, there will be serious internal conflict if those groups cannot find a common identity. Minority populations get deported or genocided out of countries over and over again in history. It happens all over the world, and the trouble inevitably begins with segregationist attitudes every single time.