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To: where's_the_Outrage?

I’ve never particularly identified with my “whiteness”. It wasn’t until the Dems started in with their identity politics that I even thought in those terms. The Dems seem to want to purposely divide people according to race for their own political reasons. Just another reason I’ve come to despise them.


17 posted on 08/06/2023 8:38:46 AM PDT by jimwatx
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To: jimwatx

I know how you feel.


28 posted on 08/06/2023 9:49:26 AM PDT by No name given (Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: jimwatx
The Dems seem to want to purposely divide people according to race for their own political reasons.

This is nothing new.

I heard an interesting lecture recently, where the speaker posited that race wasn’t a point of identity for CENTURIES. Wealth, caste, nationality, class…THAT was how people identified.

For example, for a LONG time in Europe, nobody thought about being white…they were French, British, German or whatever national identify was in fashion. Within a country, they were upper class, middle class, lower class, etc.

The fighting, rioting, wars….was along those dimensions. They were all white, but nobody cared. Indeed, that sentiment was well-captured in Blazing Saddles.

The lecturer posited that it wasn’t until the aristocracy and “the betters” realized they were outnumbered by the Little People, that they weaponized race. “Hey, all you grubby filthy people who want to kill me and pillage my wealth…don’t do that - you’re white, just like me! It’s the _____ that you want to hate.”

It’s a good theory, and I need to do some investigation. But anecdotally, it seems accurate. Indeed, I see scores of normally rational people since 2020 getting all riled up when some race-baiter makes an asinine comment. My white brethren take the bait, and Satan laughing spreads his wings.

Taking a hint from the lecturer, the identification by race should be revealed for what it is…and by WHOM it’s being weaponized.


36 posted on 08/06/2023 11:39:41 AM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity’s waiting period is about 9.8 m/s²)
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