I think this is the deepest intellectual weakness of identitarianism. It forgoes genuine curiosity and general interestedness in the universe for a never-break-character identity performance that only works on other humans.
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I don’t think I have any strongly gendered or ethnic or racialized interests. The closest I come is probably vegetarianism/veganism, which has identity roots, and strongly modulates my food related curiosities and interests.
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I suspect when an identitarian viewpoint actually produces interesting, curiosity-provoking ideas, it does so by breaking out of the original category. For example, feminism and temporality.https://twitter.com/vgr/status/1137754915680374791?s=21 …
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“World viewed from X POV for the sake of viewing it from X POV” will never be interesting to intellectually alive thinkers even in group X. But if X morphs into a weird filter of general interest, then everybody gets interested, X or not X.
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