RE: Identity Politics
February 12, 2019 at 9:47 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 9:59 am by The Grand Nudger.)
You spent an entire paragraph bemoaning the rough spot that we dudes are in, by reference to your sister, Yon. It has nothing to do with your failing to virtue signal for women and minorities. Benny for his part, put it more succinctly. Sucks to be a man. Women have it better. This is identity politics.
Can you see why, as a response to the subject of the wage gap - no less.. that might cause some people to wonder whether you've been recruited to the dark side, lol? Just ignore whichever side of this you think has it right. It honestly doesn't matter to the issue of contention ala identity politics. I'm only trying to give you an outsiders view of how you (and they) find yourself in this predicament - not litigate your dodgy points of view with respect to reality, and I mean that very broadly, your as in "liberals at large". I'm just as certain in my differences of position with the liberal establishment as you are - even if they aren't any more factual than one or another side of this particular issue...so I can understand that. I'm not a real liberal any more than I'm a real conservative. For my part, I lean into that - it's not like the liberals and conservatives are just nuts and have me all wrong...they're pointing out valid and present differences between their platforms and my own opinions.
Can you see why, as a response to the subject of the wage gap - no less.. that might cause some people to wonder whether you've been recruited to the dark side, lol? Just ignore whichever side of this you think has it right. It honestly doesn't matter to the issue of contention ala identity politics. I'm only trying to give you an outsiders view of how you (and they) find yourself in this predicament - not litigate your dodgy points of view with respect to reality, and I mean that very broadly, your as in "liberals at large". I'm just as certain in my differences of position with the liberal establishment as you are - even if they aren't any more factual than one or another side of this particular issue...so I can understand that. I'm not a real liberal any more than I'm a real conservative. For my part, I lean into that - it's not like the liberals and conservatives are just nuts and have me all wrong...they're pointing out valid and present differences between their platforms and my own opinions.
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