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Re:I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) by dave_b on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:40PM (#20186057)
If you care about some people more than others, then you have an ingroup and an outgroup. Would you really want to not care for your own family members any more than you care for a random person on the other side of the planet? That’s what striving for no outgroups entails.

I think that’s a horribly misguided mindset. A better approach is to tolerate the outgroups and facilitate live and let live arrangements. Then you can focus more on appreciating your tribe and less on fighting the others.

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Re:I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup (2014) by bittercynic on Friday June 14, 2019 @09:40PM (#20187937)
I was taking outgroup to mean a set of people that we find so abhorrent that they're unworthy of any level of consideration or respect, and that we even wished didn't exist. The term has a pretty specific meaning, and it goes beyond just a group other than our own.
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