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While this rhetoric seems hopeful and egalitarian, critics of this stance worry that what is really going on is not a freedom from conflict, but rather a removal of dissent. The goal, then, is to not truly transcend conflict, but rather to remove the visibility of discord in society. The deeper danger is that what constitutes the “correct” version of harmony and political stability often falls in line with concepts of hegemony.
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