ManFromUranus

The opportunity for trolling is endless, people looking to smell "strawberries" would instead end up smelling other things... B.O. , farts you name it. I wish the iSmell actually had succeeded, too bad.

"Strong fences make good neighbors"

I disagree that internal conflict would become external as you say. I think that the reverse would happen, we could coexist more peacefully as no groups feel controlled or exploited by the other.

Also I'm not sure what the reason you insist that people you clearly hate must continue to live with you. There is the obvious fact that you can continue to control them and demographically dominate them at the polls (thanks to immigration). If they separate from you then you cannot do that, also you would become a very tiny minority in the multicultural society that remained, I think that doesn't sit well with you. My assumption is that you are white.

I suspect the opposite, the trend is getting worse and relations are becoming a powderkeg. I suppose time will tell who is correct.

I know what his name is and how to spell it I just reflexively spell it that way. Why don't you just write that you think I'm stupid rather than hide behind this trivial spelling error comment?

You didn't address anything I said. This comment is just you calling me stupid rather than demonstrating it.

You didn't address my point, but I'll address yours:

Could those social, political and racial divisions be addressed by living in different polities?

Again, I would say that relations have not improved regardless of interracial marriages.

Public approval has increased likely in lockstep with how functionally illegal it is to not approve.

Oh so Mr. Rodgers winked into existence in 1968? I suspect that instead that he was born much earlier than that, and he lived and grew up in a very different USA than the one you live in now, and even a different USA from the one in which he began broadcasting in 1968.

>"Low-trust" "multicultural" "society" is race-war code language, isn't it?

Says you, they're just words. If you don't agree you can go ahead and disagree. I won't comment about your rhetoric other than to say it's functionally ad-hominem. Calling something a trope is a also a pretty easy way to hand-wave away anything you don't want to think about.

>and spark a whole unproductive discussion about what it is we "trust" or "don't trust" about people

I would say that trust has not improved, I would say that race relations have not improved (probably deteriorated). Even you can probably agree with that?

Mr. Rodgers prescriptions for life are lovely but impractical, and they haven't helped society at all I would say.

Well none of those issues were resolved sadly, IMO it's as bad as it ever was.

"big-lipped alligator moment"

The generic term being non-sequitur I would say.