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Re:The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People by emodendroket on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @11:22AM (#11159933)
So you think "race relations" were better during the Reconstruction period? I don't.

The point here isn't that there aren't disagreements.

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Re:The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People by kelukelugames on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @11:27AM (#11159986)
It's obvious he's comparing to 90s and early 2000s. Originally I assumed things are the same, but people are just louder because of Internet. Then birthers and Trump happened, so I think it's debatable.
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Re:The Seven Habits of Highly Depolarizing People by emodendroket on Tuesday February 23, 2016 @12:18PM (#11160457)
I don't know that it's obvious, or even who you mean by "he." But anyway, the point I wanted to make is that the recent handwringing about "polarization" lacks any sort of historical perspective.
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