RE: Identity Politics
February 12, 2019 at 10:14 am
(This post was last modified: February 12, 2019 at 10:26 am by The Grand Nudger.)
If you didn't care you wouldn't have such a reaction to identity politics. Not that it matters whether or not you care, I asked you if you could understand why other people might suspect that you are not, in fact, a member of their group..when you take it upon yourself to espouse the rhetoric of the other group?
As noted "but it's true!" doesn't really matter with identity politics, as the example of white grievance makes wonderfully clear..and, as contended by advocates of male greivance, the feminist plot of the wage gap would. You may simply be dealing with a situation in which you've been left behind by your political identity, like so many working class white males imagine themselves to have been.
For their part, I'm sure that the feminist plotters would love to be able to convince you that patriarchal conceits and grievances trap males just as effectively as they trap females - that if you find yourself opining on just how shitty you have it relative to some girl...that might actually be an artifact of the same phenomena - and thus, that you should include yourself in their identity, if you want that to change. If the game of politics truly is zero sum as the underlying assumption you're working on must be - then the other guys winning means you lose too. Good luck to em, lol.
As noted "but it's true!" doesn't really matter with identity politics, as the example of white grievance makes wonderfully clear..and, as contended by advocates of male greivance, the feminist plot of the wage gap would. You may simply be dealing with a situation in which you've been left behind by your political identity, like so many working class white males imagine themselves to have been.
For their part, I'm sure that the feminist plotters would love to be able to convince you that patriarchal conceits and grievances trap males just as effectively as they trap females - that if you find yourself opining on just how shitty you have it relative to some girl...that might actually be an artifact of the same phenomena - and thus, that you should include yourself in their identity, if you want that to change. If the game of politics truly is zero sum as the underlying assumption you're working on must be - then the other guys winning means you lose too. Good luck to em, lol.
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