There were these two social justice zealots. And each one claimed to be politically active in their local politics, each one of them working to undo a great racial injustice.
One of them, they were involved in a struggle to change the electoral rules in their city, to change it from at at-large vote for the entire city council, to instead divide the city up into districts, so that each geographic region of the city would have representation on the city council, as this was the way of racial justice, and any opposition to this could only come from wicked racists.
And the other one, they were involved in a struggle to change the electoral rules in their city, to change it from divided districts, one district per council member, to instead have an at-large vote for the members of the council, such that each ethnic group spread across the city could join in solidarity to back a candidate of their ethnicity, so that each ethnic group would have representation on the city council, as this was the way of racial justice, and any opposition to this could only come from wicked racists.
I was not the only person to notice this. However, despite some efforts, nobody was able to get the two of them to engage with each other.
I learned a number of important life lessons from watching this, all of them darkly hilarious.
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