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How can anyone read things like what Marc or this author wrote and still believe diversity is good, or any any way a strength? Hegemony is clearly superior. Rather than wasting time legislating the foundations of a society with participants who hate you, in a hegemony you can simply build.

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> How can anyone read things like what Marc or this author wrote and still believe diversity is good, or any any way a strength?

Personally, it's because I see strong historical evidence that diversity is good and a diverse population is more fair, stronger and more resilient in the long term.

Essentially every bloody conflict in history is caused because different people are placed too close to each other. Only the rare empires manage to buck that trend and go far away from the homeland to conquest and kill.

Very nearly all wars are caused by economic/resource considerations. Xenophobia is used to get the citizenry to go along with it, but it is not usually the root cause.

The counterpoint is that more contact reduces prejudice.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contact_hypothesis

Build what, and for whom?

That's exactly the problem history proves hegemony solves, lmao. You don't have to answer that question with people who are the same as you. It is an intrinsic truth.

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