• UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    2 days ago

    Could you help me try to understand how district placement emphasizing the local geography’s influence on a civilization is somehow woke? I can’t make the connection at all. If you’ve seen that take, could you elaborate?

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      They think the idea that geography and/or climate can shape a civilization is woke. Their idea is that civilizations and culture are something that I guess exists a priori as “good” or “bad”, and “developed” or “undeveloped”. The very idea that a bad crop yield or lack of local resources can shape how a society develops apparently contradicts with the reactionary worldview.