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whenever this comes up I'm always reminded about when the real inflection point of identity politics inundation was... right when the #Occupy movement was in fu

whenever this comes up I'm always reminded about when the real inflection point of identity politics inundation was... right when the #Occupy movement was in full gear. almost as though it was a means of getting the plebs to fight amongst themselves for the foreseeable future instead of uniting against the elites!

busymom0 5y ago
It's what Yuri Bezmenov refereed to as useful idiots. Divide and conquer has been used by those in power to rule over the constituents for centuries. The establishment realized that the best way to prevent people from looking at the real enemy (elite establishment) was to keep them infighting and the best way to do that is to divide people into as many oppressor oppressed buckets as possible and let them fight each other. So now we have people not just fighting about rich vs poor, now it's based on race, sex, sexual preference, ethnicity etc. While we keep fighting each other, the corporations and establishment elites keep getting richer and more powerful, meanwhile our lives keep getting more and more miserable. This identity politics is also used by corporations and politicians to prevent and deflect blame. You want your $2000 you were promised? You want the $15 minimum wage or medicare for all you were promised? You want to stop forever wars or want to hold Wall Street accountable? You want businesses to open up and stop covid fear mongering? You want a better infrastructure bill or stop oil pipelines? You are a sexist for speaking against the first female treasury secretary (paid off by Wall Street and $800G by Robinhood hedge fund), racist for speaking against the first black secretary of defence (Raytheon board seat), first trans health minister (took out her own mother while forcing covid patients into nursing homes), inciting violence against AOC for "force the vote", poor uneducated deplorable for wanting $15 minimum wage, racist for speaking against the first Native American interior secretary, "attacking science" for criticizing Fauci, "not black" if you don't vote for Biden, antisemitic if you criticize Israel or islamaphobic if you criticze Palestine. Oh and Russia!!! Put all the minority pawns in powerful positions and then exploit them for any criticism that comes your way while you do evil things. It's an evil yet genius plan to use identity politics and people are too afraid to speak up or too blind to see through it.

busymom0 5y ago

It's what Yuri Bezmenov refereed to as useful idiots. Divide and conquer has been used by those in power to rule over the constituents for centuries. The establishment realized that the best way to prevent people from looking at the real enemy (elite establishment) was to keep them infighting and the best way to do that is to divide people into as many oppressor oppressed buckets as possible and let them fight each other. So now we have people not just fighting about rich vs poor, now it's based on race, sex, sexual preference, ethnicity etc. While we keep fighting each other, the corporations and establishment elites keep getting richer and more powerful, meanwhile our lives keep getting more and more miserable. This identity politics is also used by corporations and politicians to prevent and deflect blame. You want your $2000 you were promised? You want the $15 minimum wage or medicare for all you were promised? You want to stop forever wars or want to hold Wall Street accountable? You want businesses to open up and stop covid fear mongering? You want a better infrastructure bill or stop oil pipelines? You are a sexist for speaking against the first female treasury secretary (paid off by Wall Street and $800G by Robinhood hedge fund), racist for speaking against the first black secretary of defence (Raytheon board seat), first trans health minister (took out her own mother while forcing covid patients into nursing homes), inciting violence against AOC for "force the vote", poor uneducated deplorable for wanting $15 minimum wage, racist for speaking against the first Native American interior secretary, "attacking science" for criticizing Fauci, "not black" if you don't vote for Biden, antisemitic if you criticize Israel or islamaphobic if you criticze Palestine. Oh and Russia!!! Put all the minority pawns in powerful positions and then exploit them for any criticism that comes your way while you do evil things. It's an evil yet genius plan to use identity politics and people are too afraid to speak up or too blind to see through it.