People who think with their epidermis or their genitalia or their clan are the problem to begin with. One does not banish this specter by invoking it. If I would not vote against someone on the grounds of 'race' or 'gender' alone, then by the exact same token I would not cast a vote in his or her favor for the identical reason. Yet see how this obvious question makes fairly intelligent people say the most alarmingly stupid things.
Christopher HitchensTags: gender race racism bigotry sexism 2008 barack-obama hillary-clinton identity-politics skin-colour tribalism united-states-elections-2008
Madeleine Albright has said that there is 'a special place in hell for women who don't help each other.' What are the implications of this statement? Would it be an argument in favor of the candidacy of Mrs. Clinton? Would this mean that Elizabeth Edwards and Michelle Obama don't deserve the help of fellow females? If the Republicans nominated a woman would Ms. Albright instantly switch parties out of sheer sisterhood? Of course not. (And this wearisome tripe from someone who was once our secretary of state ...)
Christopher HitchensTags: hell feminism sexism 2008 barack-obama michelle-obama democratic-party-united-states hillary-clinton tribalism united-states-elections-2008 demagoguery elizabeth-edwards john-edwards madeleine-albright republican-party-united-states united-states-secretary-of-state
There is almost no country in Africa where it is not essential to know to which tribe, or which subgroup of which tribe, the president belongs. From this single piece of information you can trace the lines of patronage and allegiance that define the state.
Christopher HitchensTags: politics africa loyalty allegiance patronage tribalism
When people have tried everything and have discovered that nothing works, they will tend to revert to what they know best—which will often be the tribe, the totem, or the taboo.
Christopher HitchensTags: africa hopelessness taboo primitivism tribalism
It is time we accept there’s no Cronkite moment for Afghanistan. Perhaps it's time we value the hearts and minds of our own over distant Afghan tribes.
Tiffany MadisonTags: war soldiers osama-bin-laden nation-building war-in-afghanistan-2001 tribalism walter-cronkite war-in-afghanistan
Kenya DOES NOT belong to 2 tribes only. Kenya has 42 tribes. to say that the decision of 2 tribes is the decision of the whole country is fallacy and outright dictatorship and tribalism
Akuku Mach Pep, Democracy on Trial
Tags: democracy dictatorship tribalism
إلى أنْ تحامتني العشيرة كلها وأُفردت إفرادَ البعيرِ المُعَبَّدِ
طرفة بن العبدTags: poetry alienation arabs estrangement tribalism
وَلي دونَكُم أَهلَونَ سيدٌ عَمَلَّسٌ وَأَرقَطُ زُهلولٌ وَعَرفاءُ جَيأَلُ
الشنفريTags: poetry independence alienation arabs tribalism antispeciesism individulaism
I think, tribalism is a mental prison…and pride of identity coupled with arrogance is one of the leading factors that limit one’s ability to abandon it.
Duop Chak WuolTags: identity-politics tribalism limitations-of-knowledge
The Republic of South Sudan does not belong to a particular tribe—it belongs to all tribes of South Sudan; those who think so should think coherently. The truth is, tribalism kills and destroys.
Duop Chak WuolTags: discrimination republic tribalism thinking-reason south-sudan
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