it is assumed that escalating the level of punishment will make people more desperate for the reward of approval from and acceptance into the privileged elite but it doesn't it makes the promise of that reward both less believable and less appealing
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i think one of the hopes of liberal 'representation' politics is that people will see that someone from the same marginalised group as them is buying into it and believe that they can and therefore should get that for themselves too
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