Posted on 07/13/2019 6:35:56 AM PDT by Kaslin
There is a biblical principle that everything produces after its own kind. Cats produce cats. Dogs produce dogs. Apple trees produce apples. Orange trees produce oranges. Love produces love. Hate produces hate. What does identity politics produce?
It produces bigotry. It produces division. It produces a victim mentality.
We’re seeing it today in the Democratic party. Joe Biden is now a racist. Nancy Pelosi is a racist. The party is reaping what it sowed. Everything is seen through the lens of identity politics.
There can be no disagreement about issues. Instead, the disagreement is based on race or ethnicity or skin color or social status.
If I’m a Hispanic woman and you differ with my position, it has nothing to do with my position. It has nothing to do with my ideology. No, you differ with me because you’re anti-woman or anti-Hispanic (or, probably, both!).
If I’m a Muslim man and you take issue with my views, it has nothing to do with differences in philosophy. It’s because you are an anti-Islamic bigot, plain and simple.
Where does all this lead?
It leads to Kamala Harris portraying Joe Biden as an anti-busing racist. A friend of segregationists. More like a Republican than a Democrat.
This is what happens to the trusted running-mate of America’s first African American president. This is the fruit of identity politics.
It leads to Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez implying that Nancy Pelosi is racist for targeting the so-called “squad,” referring to AOC, Ilhan Omar (MN), Rashida Tlaib (MI) and Ayanna Pressley (MA).
Forget the fact that AOC is espousing hopelessly extreme, completely unworkable socialist positions.
No. Pelosi is pushing back against AOC because she doesn’t like non-whites.
Forget the fact that Omar and Tlaib are making openly anti-Semitic statements.
No. Pelosi has a problem with women of color.
In AOC’s own words, “When these comments first started, I kind of thought that she was keeping the progressive flank at more of an arm's distance in order to protect more moderate members, which I understood. But the persistent singling out . . . it got to a point where it was just outright disrespectful . . . the explicit singling out of newly elected women of color.”
This is what identity politics has created. It must ultimately eat its own.
This is what happens when you build a movement based on victimology. On division. On class warfare.
This is what happens when you focus on race more than issues. Skin becomes more important than substance and outward appearance than material differences.
As expressed by Rep. Dan Crenshaw, “Madam Speaker, welcome to the true nature of identity politics — where you’re accused of being racist for no reason at all, and where intellectually lazy insults are used against you as a way to replace substantive debate of your argument or idea.”
The sword always cuts both ways. And so, when you produce a mentality of self-entitlement, in the end, it’s all about me. “I deserve more! Give me more!”
You cannot cater to self-entitlement and then expect any kind of self-sacrifice.
In the same way, when you build a movement based on identity politics, which by nature divides, you cannot expect to cultivate unity. You cannot expect to bring people together across their ideological fissures. You can only expect more and more fragmentation.
And if you ride the wave of being a victim, you will soon be attacked as the victimizer. The formerly oppressed quite quickly become oppressors.
A Boston Herald headline warned, “Progressive firebrand Ayanna Pressley needs to think about her priorities.”
Unfortunately, the story was written by Hillary Chabot, who is a white woman herself. Perhaps she too is bigoted? Condescending? Perhaps she writes from the viewpoint of the superior class?
This is the way identity politics thinks. This is the trap it creates for itself, the pit that it digs before its own feet.
Ironically, presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg recently condemned President Trump’s alleged embrace of “peak white identity politics,” claiming that such politics are “designed to drive apart people with common interests.”
Yet he made these comments at “a fundraiser in Las Vegas for the LGBTQ advocacy group Human Rights Campaign,” one of the classic examples of an organization based on identity politics. The irony is beyond rich.
In short, if you conquer by dividing you will ultimately be conquered by division. The fragmentation has only begun.
Very nice.
I’m pretty sure the purpose of identity politics is creative destruction.
You can't build a winning team when, as coach, you teach your team members that they are victims and not responsible for their weaknesses. Instead of overcoming their weaknesses (and improving), they blame everyone else for them (and that includes you, Coach).
The results: they get weaker and they keep on losing. And they get angrier and angrier.
Identity rebuttle.....
If you are anti white, you don’t belong in America
Political analysis
Cultural Marxism
Identity politics doesn't actually create anything. It just destroys.
Latinos are “persons of color” only for matters of convenience. AOC barely has a tan.
The democrat party has nothing except identity politics. It has been dividing people into separate warring groups for years. I’m super happy that there are divisions within the warring groups, and hope that the whole artificial construct falls apart.
Doesn’t help us that white conservatives relish the role of punching bag instead of skillfully playing one side against another.
Article and posts BUMP! The Coalition of Collectivists are turning on each other. It was inevitable. Enjoy the show. Stay safe.
Well, it does get a whole lot of people to act like fools and expose how quickly they can be expected to turn on their fellow countrymen, and therefore show how unreliable they are. If you call yourself out for special favor, isnt the result that you have called yourself out?
The argument made by this thread is that identity politics cannot be a governing principle, and I think that is indisputable. It can be used to cull the herd, though. There is big money funding research into identity politics, and while the rosy picture of brown people utopia is being preached in developing countries, if only they can get to America, the land these folks are conveniently vacating is being grabbed up by elites for agriculture. I know that there was a problem a while back of what to do with all those paper billions, but it is still an odd investment if the world is going to die in a decade, don’t you think? Especially since a lot of these plantations destroy rainforest. Odd how the mainstream media isnt touching the land grab story, focusing instead on facilitating the process.
I don’t know what you would call this really. I’ve been thinking of it as creative destruction but it is not a straightforward “buy this, its better” but I do think the end is to replace one thing with another, though the other is not really being talked about in the news.
“...where intellectually lazy insults are used against you as a way to replace substantive debate of your argument or idea.”
Now where have I seen that.
I hope you put in your trash or spam folder, I would have,
Befuddling to say the least.
If I had to guess, I would think that the backers of this stuff are basically socialists who just don't understand the competitive miracle of the "free market" system ("creative destruction" or capitalism). They just don't seem to get it.
In my career, I have seen MBA's from Harvard who you would think would understand the competitive advantages of capitalism...but who, despite their educational advantage, still don't get it. They think you can reach the top via politics or "networking" as opposed to simply being the best and delivering the best product (yourself) you can.
"...of America’s first African American president."
Bubba said he was the first black president.
I believe him. After all, you are what you eat.
Capitalism is the best system we have. The problem comes about when the power hungry gain power and then try to shut down competition in order to maintain their position on top.
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