Whenever I hear progressives using the term "identity politics" with a straight face, I picture Steve Bannon & Stephen Miller high-fiving each other. "Identity politics" is a made-up thing,https://twitter.com/VincentHorn/status/1017196118722121729 …
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Fact: While at Harvard Divinit School for a gathering of the most progressive, activist millennial religious leaders in the country, they positively referred to themselves as social justice warriors on several occasions. This was in 2016.
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labels, even when created for good purpose, can be coopted, misappropriated, and “weaponized” especially in politics. whoever controls the narrative wins. reminds me of this quote attributed to Karl Rove (he denies it). that’s why, in my view,
#PoliticsIsNecessaryBullshit
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So, I’m of the mind that one can take a stand for a particular meaning behind a phrase and even reown a term in a positive light, like SJW or identity politics.
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We should all aspire to become social justice warriors...because there is a serious deficit of social justice in the world! It’s ironic that this phrase now has to be renowned in a positive light.
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google “social justice warrior” then look at the top hits. thats exactly my point. i know it is sad. but that’s just the fact.
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I'm against what the stereotypical SJW behavior. But the term itself is very vague. The police and military all see themselves as warriors who enforce social justice. Even if current SJWs take over, they'd just be the new police in 100 years, and youth will still say f the police
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Thus, what we see here is that SJWs perpetuate mimetic violence through a narrative of oppressed vs oppressor. The old oppressed becomes the new oppressor and nothing truly changes. The solution isn't engaging in oppression dialectics, but simply severing the root of envy.
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Maybe. This kind of behavior online (in which you might be correct) is very different than actual reality on the ground that is fueling it: Lack of social justice and persistent poverty. This overshadows any university campus antics by several orders of magnitude.
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I know people on the ground are more nuanced and nicer, this lady who studied Social Justice insists on calling me her best friend. But they still seem to be trapped in a defensive, self-protective framework, which is a mirror image of the other side. So the conflict persists.
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At some point some group will have to step up and be bigger than that. I think what Jason is saying is that it ought to be the group that is more resourced (which is us). I think that's true (initially) though at some point I suspect all parties will need to heal in mutuality.
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