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I think it depends how much a certain label/group is core to one's identity. For many people in the Twittersphere, they worship the idea of labbelling themselve
by JohnWhigham 5y ago
I think it depends how much a certain label/group is core to one's identity. For many people in the Twittersphere, they worship the idea of labbelling themselves and showing it off to others for some reason.
- mbg721 5y agoLabeling yourself is something that can be done effectively in 140 characters.
- throwaway894345 5y agoWhile this is true, I think it kind of understates the problem. The issue isn't just "a few vain people put too much emphasis on their superficial group identities", but rather they are part of a broader ideological contingent that puts tremendous emphasis on everyone's superficial group identities. These folks generally believe that these identities are useful bases for decision making (i.e., discrimination in the most literal sense of the term) because to know a person's superficial identities is to completely understand that person. It might be controversial to say (i.e., go ahead and take my Internet Points), but it seems to plainly run completely counter to the equality ideology that gave us the civil rights movement and popularized "tolerance" as a virtue.
- JohnWhigham 5y agoWell said. I frequently think back to MLK Jr's quote about being judged not by color of skin, but by content of heart, and how appalled he'd be at the contemporary landscape.