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also.... the role of court jester is to intelligently poke at the pretensions of their own ingroup, to make the kings uncomfortable and fight groupthink gathering a following of people who like your message of hate towards outgroup is... not that.

imo the common mistake is to exclude some outgroup from your sphere of concern- to label them the enemy, to treat them as irredeemable, to glory in their downfall rather than seek reconciliation & redemption.
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and for me, my quaker christian faith calls me to treat *everyone* as my neighbor, to respect their innate human dignity & goodness, to believe in the possibility of redemption of even the worst of the worst