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> To see billionaires amass extraordinary wealth and bureaucrats amass enormous power — with little scrutiny. Not an accident, I believe. Occupy Wall Street ma
by rdtsc 5y ago
> To see billionaires amass extraordinary wealth and bureaucrats amass enormous power — with little scrutiny.
Not an accident, I believe. Occupy Wall Street made the billionaires and Wall Street take notice. As a consequence, they probably decided people need to be busy with something else, just in case, so they don't get any more funny ideas. Identity politics is a great one to divide people, fan anger, get more clicks and views, and at the same time get them uninterested what the billionaires and Wall Street firms are doing.
- president 5y agoI find identity politics to be fascinating and scary. Essentially, it is a grouping of many individual fringe concepts/movements that form a large political power and is backed by masses of well-meaning people who are sold stories and imagery of oppressor vs oppressed. IMO it is a large distraction which draws a lot of attention and money from more pressing issues occurring in the world. I fail to see where identity politics have helped in any non-superficial way and the level of division it has caused in society will be hard to reverse.