RE: Identity Politics
February 9, 2019 at 2:34 pm
(This post was last modified: February 9, 2019 at 2:57 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(February 9, 2019 at 2:05 pm)PRJA93 Wrote: 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.My take is that it's a good article on the contents of the books, and I broadly agree with it..though I would have loved to see more examples of identity politics as it's produced a positive outcome - rather than a recitation of it's known pitfalls. I think that it would have supported the final comments in a way that simply establishing the factual inaccuracies of the books being reviewed didn't...but, it -was- a book review..so, you know, it's like bitching about how my car can't make juliene carrots..right, lol?
I am, of course, not saying that this is what you're doing. But it sure does look eerily similar. Hmm. Weird.
Quote: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, then..in your estimation, to properly virtue signal. Is this, broadly, your view of what identity politics is or operates on?
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.
(I'm an all or nothing potential voter, btw, but precisely because of common sense. I see two parties desperately wringing their hands about a 2020 vote and trying to distance themselves or purge those things or groups they fear might cost them a win...when, in 2050...the very idea of spending a minutes worth of time on voting is going to seem absurd......if things continue along business as usual. We had time to argue about abortion and sjws but not enough time to literally save our planet and all life in the process? Everybody just sit back and have a drink, I guess, because the ship sank and there's no sense in worrying about it now.)
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