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Tribal yearnings: the enemies of the open society today.
FUNNY WORD, tribe. Karl Popper used it a lot but in polite circles you don't hear it much today. Around 1960 the feeling arose among progressive thinkers that it was pejorative, and it fell into disuse, probably in relation to developments in Africa and the winning of independence by many African states.
Yet in Hawaii for the last six years there has been an aggressive effort to redefine the Native Hawaiian population as a "tribe", extending special privileges in the cause of race-based ethnic separatism. What is known in Congress as the Akaka Bill (after its chief sponsor, Hawaiian Democratic Senator Daniel Akaka) proposes a special autonomous Native Hawaiian ...
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