In a way, politics is about achieving the best result for your ingroup. At some fundamental level, I perceive all conscious beings as my ingroup. This universalism is what I used to understand as leftism; rightism defines a much smaller ingroup and pits them against others.
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it also seems like both have altered discourse, diverting it from what you termed universalism, most noticeably to me by overloading terminology, and by having a strong shared basis in identity politics assumptions
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Yes, the purpose of waking people into separate, antagonistic identities is the facilitation of a conflict. Social Justice sees antagonistic conflict between sexes, genders, and races, but avoids class. I suspect that it was in part designed to derail Occupy Wallstreet.
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People that thrive under the current conditions of order or the change that comes with chaos
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I think redpilledness predates wokeness by ~a decade tho
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