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placid-platypus asked: What do "Tribe U" and "Tribe R" signify? I basically get what you mean I guess but I'm curious about the etymology.

https://socialjusticemunchkin.tumblr.com/post/141934849410/those-two-tribes

https://socialjusticemunchkin.tumblr.com/post/143003260400/empirical-evidence-on-those-two-tribes

It’s the thing which people in the US call Blue/Red except the more general pattern which seems to pop up everywhere around the world.

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  1. infodump-playhouse reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin
  2. metagorgon said: urban and rural kind of works, but not quite. still don’t like dividing stuff into two tribes when there are quite a few.
  3. zerofarad reblogged this from ilzolende and added:
    For the quirky historical reason that Richard Garfield was unaware of the “K for Key” convention, so he scanned the...
  4. socialjusticemunchkin reblogged this from shieldfoss and added:
    They used to switch the colors every election, but 2000 in which R was red was a clusterfuck and the colors burned into...
  5. shieldfoss reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin and added:
    Do you know the history of how the Americans managed to make red the color for both conservatism and communism?
  6. ilzolende reblogged this from zeteticelench and added:
    I did too! Anyway, why isn’t black in MtG K for “key”? (Also, the red/yellow/green/blue color quartet may go well with...
  7. zeteticelench reblogged this from shieldfoss and added:
    Ah, MtG colour labels. Also, in context I ended up reading them as urban/rural for some reason.
  8. placid-platypus reblogged this from socialjusticemunchkin