Unlike liberals, leftists & progressives who claim to care about minorities, gays, blacks, women, immigrants, et al. don't. Witness the assault on @MrAndyNgo who is gay, Asian, son of immigrants & the response ("but he films Antifa so deserved it")https://quillette.com/2019/06/30/antifas-brutal-assault-on-andy-ngo-is-a-wake-up-call-for-authorities-and-journalists-alike/ …
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I’d say invoking the irony of leftist identity politics being ignored by the left when it suits them.
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I don't think he's being ironic. He's using id poltics because it suits him here
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The IDW is defined by identity politics and a shared sense of perceived victimhood by the left. It's the fire by which they all warm themselves at their IDW retreats. Read Bari's article last year. It's a collection of victim stories.
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The problem with Shermer's Tweet is that nobody serious is condoning or excusing this attack. It's a form of strawmanning and it *does* buy into a narrative that the right is selling on this.
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OK, that's just humorless bad faith. He's throwing identity politics back in their sick, hypocritical, violent faces. It's really disappointing to find a doctor dancing around the justification of mob violence.
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How exactly does this tweet constitute "throwing identity politics back in their faces". It seems to me that the left is behaving pretty much the way Shermer and co. insist is the correct way to act; they have determined that Andy is an awful person w/out regard to his identity.
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The crucial distinction shermer fails to make, whatever the rights and wrongs of the violence itself, is that ngo was attacked because he's at the very least fascist adjacent, not because he's gay or a poc, ie for things he can choose (politics) and not for things he can't (id)
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Victim blaming is victim blaming.
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No, he's not. Come one, with all these mds and p-hache-ds right next to your name? Pause, take a deep breath and read his tweet again slowly.
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