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Identity politics has become a shield and weapon for bad behavior - how dare you question me you must be a bigot. Whoever can gain the public’s attention first
by underseacables 6y ago
Identity politics has become a shield and weapon for bad behavior - how dare you question me you must be a bigot. Whoever can gain the public’s attention first controls the narrative.
- eplanit 6y agoYes, it's absurd. I can say nasty things about you because of my Identity, which also shields me from anything you say in response/defense.
- thefz 6y agoThis beavior is super emphasized on reddit nowadays. Every subreddit is vertical, either you agree with what the collective mind thinks or you are out or downvoted to oblivion. There's no discussion anymore.
- marcusverus 6y agoOccasionally you'll see someone step up to question the narrative, and they almost always preface their comments with a bit of moral signaling. It's like a bizarre ritual. They'll disavow, insult, or otherwise distance themselves from whichever 'other' is the target of the mob's ire, and only then will they offer up a contrary opinion. I suppose they're responding rationally to the 'karmic' incentive.
- Barrin92 6y agoIdentity, status and standing has always been a shield or weapon for bad behaviour, just look at the kind of abuse scandals the church got and still gets away with. It's more like we've just expanded the grifting privileges to more groups
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- xsmasher 6y agoWhat is the connection to identity politics here? I am missing it.
- HideousKojima 6y agoThe person in question is trans
- rogermecizki 6y agothe person in question is trans, consequently, criticism of them is weaponised through the discourse as transphobic
- moistbar 6y agoIronically, with the blanket ban they've enacted, nobody can come to her defense either.
- Closi 6y agoBecause after she was thrown out of the green party she said ‘transphobia’ was the reason she was being thrown out, presumably in an attempt to deflect from the real reason. The real reason was that she recruited her father as a campaign manager while knowing he was being charged for sexual offences, and he would eventually be convicted of raping and torturing a 10 year old child which was held captive in the attic of the house she was living in at the time.
- Karawebnetwork 6y agoI read this on Twitter recently: "The reason why so many extremely woke people turn out to have been bigoted in the past is because bigotry used to be the best way to bully and intimidate people, but now performative anti-bigotry is the best way to bully and intimidate people. An evolving toolset for sociopaths." https://twitter.com/shantmm/status/1364992332064378880 https://twitter.com/shantmm/status/1364992332064378880 To me, that's one of the best explanation of what we are witnessing at large.
- morpheos137 6y agoPerformative anti-bigotry is just bigotry afterall.
- TomSwirly 6y agoJustify your statement, which is basically A & !A Please note that bias against bigots is not, actually, bigotry.
- DreamScatter 6y agoIndeed it is contradictory, but we never expected the social justice crowd to be able to put together coherent logical ideas, most of their ideas are founded in contradictions, and so the entire social justice movement is a mess of contradictions.