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		_lqaf on Aug 13, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Feds say Yale discriminates against Asian, white a... ...In the same way that cannibalism is the logical conclusion of capitalism. Don't get me wrong - the impulse is there and some people think that way. Just like are absolutely people who would peddle filet of Steve. But amplifying the marginal to discredit the general is fundamentally dishonest, and we won't do that here, right?

x3n0ph3n3 on Aug 13, 2020 [–]

I don't see how you draw that path, but maybe you could try explaining it. It seems the story is clearly an extreme form of "equality of outcome," but there's no clear linguistic or conceptual path from capitalism to cannibalism.

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