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Aug 4, 2023Liked by Second City Bureaucrat

Amazing how a whole industry has developed that would be defunct by just saying “there are races.” Maybe it’s shorthand, and there are edge cases, but it’s a useful descriptor with empirical support. You have some good phrasings in here as well, e.g, “Race is a trait ascribed to someone at birth by virtue of a “systemic racial hierarchy hundreds of years in the making,” similar to the traits of hereditary nobility or social caste, which the modern world explicitly holds are not heritable.”

And

“This goes to the general problem of American racial identity: it wants to preserve the essence of group identities it maintains are false and were constructed by acts of injustice. Non-whites are non-whites in a good and special sense and whites must be whites in a bad sense.”

Thanks

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O/T

The Ukraine war is ending, you know because military tribunals only happens when the deployments or wars over … 🤣 the Article 15s happen at the end when the cowards have no need of you and wish to assert power. Every time.

Zelensky replacing heads of military recruitment centers over corruption allegations | The Hill

https://thehill.com/policy/international/4148808-zelensky-military-recruitment-centers-corruption-allegations/

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How’s SCBs transition going?

It’s not cool to be BAP so it’s cool to be Asian even in Chicago

(Cue “Asian” outrage)

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Change Gears Comrade:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ufo-hearing-congress-uap-takeaways-whistleblower-conference-david-grusch-2023/

And show me your Alien Vaccination card, and proof of humanity test (unless voting of course).

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