There is no way out of this black hole. Buttieg is not gay enough, Harris is not black enough. The only thing that would make the notional idiot democrat happy is a soylent of a candidate. All the diversity nutrients in the tastelessly right proportions.https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-insanity-of-democrats-attacking-pete-buttigiegfor-not-being-gay-enough …
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The issue is not identity per se, it is identity coupled to a supposed disdain for hierarchy. Meaning that I can gain status most easily by making ever crazier and more extreme statements. That element is new to post~1850 left, and extreme w/ social media.
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Some form of “idpol” in a caste society is to be expected, and indeed all large-scale premodern societies had some version of this. Modern democracies founded on egalitarian principles are a different story, and it’s hard to see how idpol is supposed to work in one
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That's a class system, which bears little resemblance to modern identity politics. Primarily because modern identity politics tends to celebrate people for their lack of power, while class systems do the opposite.
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The caste system is much more than a class system but I won’t get into that.
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