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Also true of far right ideologies like Nazism and racial supremacy. Generally speaking, identity politics are tribal because they're about identity.

• philwelch 8y ago
  Racial supremacism and Nazism are based around identity and tribalism, but the notions of oppression and victimhood aren't as central. Nazism in particular doesn't have the leftist narrative of overthrowing oppression in general; it was very explicit about the "strong" (Germanics) dominating the "weak" (Jews and Slavs).
  • fhood 8y ago
    The Nazi party built a great deal of its support on the argument that the wealthy Jews were oppressing the "pure" germans.
    • philwelch 8y ago
      Yes, but they didn't exactly equivocate about the idea that oppression was bad regardless of who was oppressing whom. They didn't try and guilt Jews into not "oppressing" them; they spurred Germans into a deep hatred of the Jews that would persist independent of any situational influences.
  • wsy 8y ago
    True, there is some interesting mindbending going on: it's not directly "they are suppressing us". It's "they are on the way of suppressing us, you see the first signs already, and here are their world dominion plans. Instead we should be suppressing them, because we are supreme". You see a similar pattern towards the muslim world today.