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Der_Einzigetoday at 11:34 AM3 repliesview on HN

How can you not acknowledge that essentialism is basically correct?

Some cultures go thousands of years without ever forming civilizations that escape barbarism. Slavs in particular seem especially unable to find their way out of tyranny, for literally thousands of years.

Sometimes you call a spade a spade. Essences exist. Copes against it like “intersectionality” have been thoroughly rejected by the body politic and that’s why you see zoomer and gen alpha talking like they’re all from 4chan - because 4chan was the only place where essentialism was not only accepted but encouraged.


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tolerancetoday at 12:02 PM

> and that’s why you see zoomer and gen alpha talking like they’re all from 4chan - because 4chan was the only place where essentialism was not only accepted but encouraged.

This bodes well for the future, you say?

greedotoday at 1:41 PM

Pure racism.

wat10000today at 2:00 PM

We need a name for this genre where some heinous idea is presented as if it was obviously correct, with no evidence because apparently it's so obvious it doesn't even need any.