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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by pohl on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:37PM (#31123989)
It makes me sad that we (the United States) have entirely lost our e pluribus unum. In some quarters, folks consider the mere idea to be communism. Of course they're not exactly deep thinkers, those folks, but that's the dominant POV in the deep red state in which I live.
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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by smackeyacky on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:16PM (#31124732)
Externally, America had never looked as united as America has liked to project. Segregation, Jim Crow laws, "No Irish, no Italians" signs in windows, rife religious sectarianism and a law enforcement system with a long history of directed violence.

It probably seems like America is getting divided more starkly, but to outsiders its just more of the same from a country that had a civil war over slavery. It waxes and wanes but it never really goes away.

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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by jimbokun on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:51PM (#31125401)
It was meant as a goal to strive for, not an end already achieved.
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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by StevePerkins on Friday April 22, 2022 @12:53PM (#31124301)
In the other quarters, I'm not sure that the e pluribus unum melting pot concept is any less obsolete. All of our various factions seem headed in the direction of fracture and balkanization, we just vary on the details.
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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by dbbr on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:12PM (#31125776)
I would argue that, to this day, in most quarters, e pluribus unum is deeply engraved. It’s presence can be considered a true test of one’s metal. Any newly minted ethos just won’t do.
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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by notpachet on Friday April 22, 2022 @03:25PM (#31126840)
> newly minted eth

Cryptocurrencies make their inevitable appearance in the thread! :]

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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by jimbokun on Friday April 22, 2022 @01:50PM (#31125386)
> In some quarters, folks consider the mere idea to be communism.

And in other quarters, they believe we have permanent, irreconcilable differences based on race, sex, and sexuality making the whole idea of "out of many, one" unthinkable.

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Re:The Superhero Industry Hates Children (2019) by pohl on Friday April 22, 2022 @02:03PM (#31125605)
At bare minimum, one would think we could all agree that it's a good thing to honestly teach our nation's actual history — rather than trying to ban teaching it so that we can pretend that systemic racism is not and never was a thing.
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