Peterson's 12 Rules For Life, have you heard of this?

[The Grand Nudger]

He has to pay for his vast collection of soviet art..after all.

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I've already framed it this way, several pages ago.

If you weren't capable of precious moments of introspection I'd probably just call you a simpleton and make fun of you.   

I can't take responsibility for saying any of that.  I'm saying that I've been on the receiving end of identity politics, that the effects are real, and that this puts me against much of the "left."

I don't think you have been.  I think you've perceived things in this way.  The left has not aligned itself against you...you are a nobody.

Although, I frankly don't see them as the left, because when ideas are forced to be accepted at the point of social consequence, we're talking about a fascism of the left, not the supportive, loving laborers that I grew up knowing as democrats.

Are we talking about the facism of the left..even..a novel concept on it's face..or just a few assholes?  

Because it's a pointless and valueless endeavor, and I shouldn't have done it.

No argument from me on those points..but I don't think that answers the meat of the question.  

I didn't say that many left wing people aren't sincere about their politics.  I'm saying that if I pretend to identify with identity-based politics of the kind we're talking about, "I" would be insincere and dishonest.

You keep talking about identity politics..but is it at all possible that you've deceived yourself, and are..in fact, the only person engaged in identity politics in any of the particulars of this conversation?  

I know what I like and dislike, and how I want to live.  That's my political position.  Fuck the college PC crowd for covering their incompetency in PC dogma.  And fuck the American right for putting a fucking orangutan in the office of the president.

You espouse political ideologies far beyond your likes and dislikes with some regularity.  

"Dick" is just shorthand for "refuse to adopt my world view, and unapologetic about it."

To whom?  That's certainly not how I use the word....that sounds like an identity politics way to use the word.  

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No, I don't think that nor did I say it.  I think that if I were to involve myself in left wing identity politics, which I care little about except when it inconveniences me-- if I were to INVEST myself in those ideas and causes in order not to be called a dick, then that would bring MY personal growth to a screeching halt.  I have way more on my plate than I can handle, and I pump out achievements that make me happy for about an hour before I go the next item on my list.  That's my "way of the warrior."

You keep talking about this thing...but......