The other people invented identity politics. No, really.
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if you have a principled commitment to equality the smart play is to display a principled commitment to equality in your public politics
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if your goal is
#KillAllMen ∩#KillWhitey the smart play is to display a principled commitment to equality in your public poilitics -
there are A LOT of white people who will gladly, enthusiastically trade an unfair world in which they are advantaged for a fair world
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but will kick like a motherfucker about trading an unfair world where they're advantaged for an unfair world where they're disadvantaged
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it is a lot to ask huge swathes of humanity not to be outraged by the outrageous =\
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if hegemony can only be beaten by being nice to hegemons then busting out surprise rage, we're doomed
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shit, don't even be nice to the actual hegemons, just don't alienate on-side ppl who share their natal characteristics
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I guess. It reeks of "not all men." People who reflexively deny an accurate hegenonic generalization aren't seeing themselves.
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sure. but this is maybe a good criterion for who we allow into the role of ~progressive hero~, not for who even consider valid.
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most people are balls of fucking anxiety who have all the skill at introspection of literally never having been taught it.
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we've been treating screaming at them until they go away as a fun game calling for a round of high-fives afterward.
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what's the track record for being nice to them, though? versus making it unacceptable to act how they do?
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