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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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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The issue here is that I belong to no group. From some perspectives, I've tons of privileges (health, strength, freedom), from other perspectives, I'm among the least privileged (money, alienation). Everything is a trade-off we have to live with.
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I'm sorry to hear that you've felt alienated, and that you haven't had the resources you need.
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Well, I've had plenty of some resources, not enough of other resources, and too much of other resources. I say it's fair enough. Nobody gets everything they want. In America, I'm probably comparatively not so privileged, but in the whole world, I'm very privileged. Good enough.
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For now, yes, though originally it was a term that was used in a neutral-to-positive way. My main push back is that cynicism and defeatism feed right into the hands of these memetic battles.
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I love the example of the black community re-owning the n*word on their own terms. Same with how the LGBT community focused on "gay pride". These weren't defeatist moves, these were tantric transmutations.
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