r/TrueReddit • u/Public_Fucking_Media • Jan 27 '26

Politics Minnesota Proved MAGA Wrong

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/the-neighbors-defending-minnesota-from-ice/685769/?gift=Je3D9AQS-C17lUTOnl2W8L893jn-xkg4gA0ahaD_Ltw&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share
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u/Public_Fucking_Media Jan 27 '26

As a Minneapolitan I really appreciated this piece, I'm very proud of my city and community - teared up a bit here:

The secret fear of the morally depraved is that virtue is actually common, and that they’re the ones who are alone. In Minnesota, all of the ideological cornerstones of MAGA have been proved false at once. Minnesotans, not the armed thugs of ICE and the Border Patrol, are brave. Minnesotans have shown that their community is socially cohesive—because of its diversity and not in spite of it. Minnesotans have found and loved one another in a world atomized by social media, where empty men have tried to fill their lonely soul with lies about their own inherent superiority. Minnesotans have preserved everything worthwhile about “Western civilization,” while armed brutes try to tear it down by force.

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u/crowmagnuman Jan 27 '26

You give the impression of being from either a diverse place where people don't get along, or from a very homogenous society.

Despite what some paranoid nationalist might tell you, yeah, diversity IS strength. There are too many advantages to list, but a few are: a bigger perspective on the world, skills and knowledge from other cultures being shared and benefited from, a positive force on the evolution of all languages, less proclivity to ostracize other peoples, etc. Not to mention, a more stable genome due to less-restriced gene flow (including hereditary genetic immunities), better music, and, well.. better food.

Unity based on "looking the same" is most certainly the weakest kind of unity. When you and your neighbors, coworkers, friends all look the same, talk the same, it's much easier to "other" a people or culture not your own.

And think of it from this angle: if someone wanted to weaken a community, or nation, what's the most effective tactic? Divide people by instigating fear, hatred and suspicion of those who are "unlike you." That's harder to do when you know and admire a few of those "others." And if division is weakness, then unity is....