You got that the wrong way around. A person who sees the social conflict as the oppressor vs. the oppressed doesn’t need any motivation to “explain the differences in educational attainment etc” to motivate himself.
Once someone is already a volk-Marxist fanatic that is true. However, to convince others to give them power, not to mention to recruit more fanatics they need a semi-plausible argument for their position.
Trying to understand demographic statistics is important for us nerds but it’s not what drives the main social conflict.
Whether someone is interested in demographic statistics or not, demographic statistics are real and hence have real effects. The need to deal with those effects drives a lot of the social conflicts.
Once someone is already a volk-Marxist fanatic that is true. However, to convince others to give them power, not to mention to recruit more fanatics they need a semi-plausible argument for their position.
Whether someone is interested in demographic statistics or not, demographic statistics are real and hence have real effects. The need to deal with those effects drives a lot of the social conflicts.