• MrSmiley@lemmy.zip
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      That speaks more to your ideological fantasy than anything else.

      In the chapter “The Rise of Factions,” Walter describes how aspiring autocrats cultivated racial and ethnic resentments that culminated in brutal ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. In “The Dark Consequence of Losing Status,” she describes how a sudden change in the power of a specific ethnic group can be more inflammatory than a sustained structural imbalance.

      https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2022/10/13/review-walter-jacobs-civil-war-243912/

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        That speaks more to your ideological fantasy than anything else.

        Actually, that you interpret it that way speaks to my failure in walking the line between my joke being dry enough without sounding like I’m being sincere 🤷

        In the chapter “The Rise of Factions,” Walter describes how aspiring autocrats cultivated racial and ethnic resentments that culminated in brutal ethnic violence in the former Yugoslavia and in Rwanda. In “The Dark Consequence of Losing Status,” she describes how a sudden change in the power of a specific ethnic group can be more inflammatory than a sustained structural imbalance.

        Sounds about right, yeah.