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jolfdb on May 28, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: Nasa Says Earth Is Greener Today Than 20 Years Ago...

Not every bad thing is authoritarian. Sometimes you have people powered plagues, such as racism and bigotry, which have been part of human nature for millennia.

pm90 on May 29, 2019 [–]

Lawful discrimination against minorities (Jim Crow, Poll Taxes etc.) is by definition authoritarian. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authoritarianism

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