• arrow74@lemmy.zip
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    Right but if you follow that power dynamic up the chain the cause would still be the group that picked the " favorite".

    This doesn’t resolve the “favorite” group from their role, but rather distributes blame to all involved

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      Moreover, the intentional pitting of Group A against Group B in colonialism is specifically to make it so that Groups A and B never realize that they could overtake their colonizers by cooperating.