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Sam Kriss's avatar

there are lots of terms that ultimately just refer to being on one end of a bell curve. that doesn't mean they're not meaningful or the phenomena they refer to don't exist

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"here was an intelligent and cultured group ruling over miscellaneous dumb and uncultured groups. The latter benefitted from being ruled over the former, but they also resented it and thought they should get more because that’s what being dumb and uncultured means. The dumb and uncultured were too numerous to be repressed and, eventually, they succeeded in calling in outside help and taking power, destroying in the process what made it worth taking over in the first place. For half of the globe, this is the tale of the second half of the 20th century, basically, and there are places where it turned out a lot worse than Lebanon."

Does it strike you like Israeli rightists are similarly rebelling against the secular Ashkenazi leftist elite and their current USSR-origin allies? It certainly feels that way with the rightists' attempts to do things such as judicial reform and repealing the Grandchild Clause. HeTows on Twitter previously wrote about this. He talked about First Israel and Second Israel, with First Israel being the accomplished, mostly leftist Ashkenazi and ex-USSR segment of Israeli society, while Second Israel is the unaccomplished rest, and Second Israel resents the domination of First Israel but any attempt by Second Israel to replace First Israel will simply severely screw over Israel due to Second Israel's lesser amount of competence.

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