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You've got whites acting like they're a victim group now just because of their skin color. Way to go.
Previously a white person had to cop some sort of deviancy or disability to be a member of a victim group - gay, lesbian, trans, atheist, Satanist or what have you. Now we have whites claiming that they are victims and deserving of special consideration just because they are white.
But we could all see that coming, right? Sauce, goose, gander?
Wall Street Journal
American is turning into a third rate African nation with tribes fighting each other trying to get all the goodies.
Jeff Goldstein
Singling out people of a certain race for persecution and oppression. We used to call that racism. Now they call it being "woke".
Previously a white person had to cop some sort of deviancy or disability to be a member of a victim group - gay, lesbian, trans, atheist, Satanist or what have you. Now we have whites claiming that they are victims and deserving of special consideration just because they are white.
But we could all see that coming, right? Sauce, goose, gander?
Wall Street Journal
...the focus on Mr. Trump is also a cop-out because it lets everyone duck the deeper and growing problem of identity politics on the right and left. The politics of white supremacy was a poison on the right for many decades, but the civil-rights movement rose to overcome it, and it finally did so in the mid-1960s with Martin Luther King Jr. ’s language of equal opportunity and color-blind justice.
That principle has since been abandoned, however, in favor of a new identity politics that again seeks to divide Americans by race, ethnicity, gender and even religion. “Diversity” is now the all-purpose justification for these divisions, and the irony is that America is more diverse and tolerant than ever.
The problem is that the identity obsessives want to boil down everything in American life to these categories. In practice this means allocating political power, contracts, jobs and now even salaries in the private economy based on the politics of skin color or gender rather than merit or performance. Down this road lies crude political tribalism, and James Damore’s recent Google dissent is best understood as a cri de coeur that we should aspire to something better. Yet he lost his job merely for raising the issue.
A politics fixated on indelible differences will inevitably lead to resentments that extremists can exploit in ugly ways on the right and left. The extremists were on the right in Charlottesville, but there have been examples on the left in Berkeley, Oakland and numerous college campuses. When Democratic politicians can’t even say “all lives matter” without being denounced as bigots, American politics has a problem.
American is turning into a third rate African nation with tribes fighting each other trying to get all the goodies.
Jeff Goldstein
Antifa, BLM, CAIR, the New Black Panthers, La Raza, the ***** Hatters, the KKK — these are all identity movements and all formed and animated by the kind of identity politics championed by the left, and legitimated by the likes of Edward Said and other academic cultural Marxists who recognized the way to power was to divide, and then control, particular identity groups, whose narratives they seek to create and police.
...the alt right, the prog left — and you’ll soon recognize that they are the same. This is tribalism, no more and no less. What we are witnessing is an attempt to corrupt the ideals of a propositional nation based on individualism and individual universal rights (and that’s how our Constitutional republic is designed to operate) — a lesson Google’s pillorying of a software engineer as “anti-diversity” should have made clear.
You should reject this archaic collectivism from whatever group espouses it, because in the end it is simply anti-individualism dressed in mob attire to bolster cowardice and bigotry in numbers.
Singling out people of a certain race for persecution and oppression. We used to call that racism. Now they call it being "woke".