Thanks.
I'm not quite sure what to make of identity politics. I support equality for all, regardless of gender or race, but my issue with the current movement is that there's no end in sight because there's no standard goal (correct me if I'm wrong). Here's what I mean:
The essence of identity politics is that no individual should be categorized, boxed up and packaged according to some immutable characteristic. Every individual should be free to be and think whatever she or he wants (or whatever
they want), free of social impediment. But, under that system, there's simply no end in sight because the "standard" for what constitutes an impediment would exist as defined by each individual, and we all know how uniformly people think... What you deem to be acceptance is going to fall short in someone else's mind, and so long as someone else deems something to be an impediment (even if only imagined or made up) then that person will always get to claim that there's an "ism" at hand (thereby perpetuating moral handwringing and guilt). This is particularly pointed because we're talking about social issues, in which ivory tower theorists in _________ Studies programs are conjuring things even where they don't exist (see, e.g., the wage gap theory, which is really an exercise in competing accounting methods). (And that raises another issue: Statistics are a lie. They're subjective, massaged and fudged to support whatever their progenitor's position is. Unfortunately, they're relied upon heavily these days, cited as gospel by those who want them to be accepted as the objective truth.)
Soon we'll get into the demands for reparations due to every non-binary white male. That's the iceberg that lurks underneath all this politicking. You'll see. Until reparations are paid, "ism" will be the impediment and anyone who opposes reparations will be an "ist" to be hated and shamed.
An aside is that I have no idea what this will do to the U.S. political parties. Currently, the Dems are the party of the identity politics movement and the Dems' constituent parts are aligned, but the movement is in its relative infancy and money isn't at issue yet. I expect the party's constituent parts to begin warring among themselves (likely when relative values for reparations become an issue), and who knows what comes next?
[/Meandering thoughts off./]
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