Identity Politics

[EgoDeath]

I'm definitely more solid in the hookers and blow department, just comes with the territory.

What did you think of the article?

It's always interesting to me when someone will post some piece of media without giving their take on it. Some people seem to be waiting for someone to post an opinion on which they already have memorized talking points that they want to throw out. Only weasels and snakes use tactics like that.

I am, of course, not saying that this is what you're doing. But it sure does look eerily similar. Hmm. Weird.

The all-or-nothing politics of today have become a complete joke, with common sense being thrown out the window in many cases by people who, rather than looking to examine individual ideas and the merits of those ideas, simply want to "tick all the right boxes" so they can be on the correct side of things. You see it on the right just as much as you see it on the left, though for some reason unknown to me most conversations you'll see on the subject tend to criticize the left for their use of identity politics. I think this is a mostly baseless criticism as you see people on the right being lambasted for failing to subscribe to the status quo just as much as you see it on the left. Tomi Lahren, who is some right-wing talking head I think, was completely exiled for a while by the conservatives when it came out that she was, in fact, pro-choice.

She failed to tick all the right boxes and was outed for it. It's all a joke. After the backlash, she did a classic flip-flop and is, I think, now pro-life. All's right with the world again, no pun intended.

Let's examine individual ideas and their merits. I'm tired of identity politics.