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Vicenti wrote:Possibly his point is this, one who focuses so much on social issues will eventually forget about economic issues. You see this in America today. The economy has so many problems but Americans are fighting about what one does in their personal life. We get so engrossed in the “culture wars” that we totally forget the social policy is only one half of the story.

Though I must admit his post came of as kind of…odd to say the least. But if my suspicions prove to be correct I do believe Jishuin is from a different culture than western culture, so bear that in mind that there might be a cultural difference here. In some parts of the world social values never change (take Russia or China for example) but here in western countries our culture constantly evolves with changing times and circumstances. I can’t speak for them specifically, but it should be noted that people are not going to hold a value universally which might explain that post.

It doesn't sound like they were cautioning against forgetting to care about economic issues, it sounds like they were discouraging paying literally any amount of attention to cultural issues. (Also, cultural and economic issues intertwine. Cultural oppression is critical to keeping economic oppression intact, and you can't dismantle economic oppression without also understanding cultural oppression.) No one here is forgetting about economic issues, and the solution to people hypothetically forgetting about economic issues is not to criticize minorities.

We also have plenty of people from non-western cultures in the Bloc who do not subtly advocate for ignoring the struggles of minorities, so frankly, his culture is not an excuse.

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